{"product_id":"the-vivisectors-missouri-williams","title":"The Vivisectors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 · Indian subcontinent edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a famous but crumbling university city being slowly swallowed by vegetation, power rests on a fragile truce between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners. Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a scandal breaks on campus. Adam — a contrarian, and her boss's pet student — falls into open conflict with a rising young professor, each man claiming discrimination. As the crisis swallows the university, Agathe's boss instructs her to befriend Adam and report back. She finds herself pulled both into the events tearing the city apart and towards the alluring student at the centre of them. But in a fight over the truth, can anyone be taken at their word?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second novel from the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Doloriad\u003c\/em\u003e is a campus story unlike any other: icily suspenseful, violently precise, part love story and part ecological fable. The Booker judges called it \u003cem\u003egenuinely experimental, relentlessly and rollickingly told\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Karl Ove Knausgaard at the end of the world — \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMissouri Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e is a novelist, playwright and editor. Her debut, \u003cem\u003eThe Doloriad\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. \u003cem\u003eThe Vivisectors\u003c\/em\u003e was acquired by 4th Estate in an eight-way auction and named one of the most anticipated novels of 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eEdition details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4th Estate (HarperCollins) paperback, 256 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExport edition — available exclusively in the Indian subcontinent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished 21 May 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Fourth Estate (HarperCollins India)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52466103386328,"sku":"9780008725297","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/The_20Vivisectors_Book_20Jacket.jpg?v=1789484484","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/the-vivisectors-missouri-williams","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}