{"product_id":"the-empty-quarter","title":"The Empty Quarter","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"long-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sunday with nothing on the calendar arrives quietly and ends up being where the most important decision of the year is made, by mid-afternoon, on a chair you do not usually sit in. The walk you took only to leave the house turns into the conversation with yourself that opens a door. The morning the meeting was cancelled becomes the morning the year actually began. Nothing was happening. That was the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Empty Quarter covers a quarter of a million square kilometres in the south of the Arabian peninsula, where almost no rain has fallen this century. People have crossed it. People still cross it. They come back not with stories of what happened but with a different kind of attention than the one they took in. Whatever the desert does, it does it slowly, and at no charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelongs in the same shelf as \u003cem\u003eArabian Sands\u003c\/em\u003e by Wilfred Thesiger, \u003cem\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/em\u003e by Julian Barnes, or any book read on a weekend you tell people afterwards was uneventful, knowing it was not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Fine Art of Bookmarks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58112173506944,"sku":"TFAOB-S04-B017","price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2346\/9440\/files\/the-empty-quarter-fine-art-bookmark-fine-art-bookmark-cover.jpg?v=1780057163","url":"https:\/\/thefineartofbookmarks.com\/products\/the-empty-quarter","provider":"The Fine Art Of Bookmarks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}