{"product_id":"a-parang-story","title":"A Parang Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dying Parang queen summons her favourite great grandchild to her bedside and confesses her failure to protect traditional elements of Parang.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nAs the Parang queen tells her story; through the childÕs eye we see the highlights of a beautiful career and the celebration of Parang in all its forms and traditions, (weddings, funerals, christenings etc.)\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nAfter the telling, the child wisely tells the Parang queen not to focus on what she didnÕt do for the artform but rather to focus on what she did. These words comfort the Parang Queen and she sends away her great grandchild in preparation for her final journey.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nFinally leaving her great grandmother, the child sees the spirit of her great grandfather coming to take his bride away to the afterlife.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Parang queen leaves them and the family and village bursts into spontaneous celebration of the life that was the Parang Queen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timothy C. Teemal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44336404332705,"sku":"9781300427117","price":33.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1rev52ez-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1748393799","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/a-parang-story","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}