{"product_id":"the-empire-of-the-senses-9780804173469","title":"The Empire of the Senses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e San Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Empire of the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e is an enthralling tale of love and war, duty and self-discovery. It begins in 1914 when Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated German Jew fighting in World War I, finds unexpected companionship on the Eastern Front; back at home, his wife Josephine embarks on a clandestine affair of her own. A decade later, during the heady, politically charged interwar years in Berlin, their children—one, a nascent Fascist struggling with his sexuality, the other a young woman entranced by the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age—experience their own romantic awakenings. With a painter’s sensibility for the layered images that comprise our lives, this exquisite novel by Alexis Landau marks the emergence of a writer uniquely talented in bringing the past to the present.","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527713890647,"sku":"9780804173469","price":16.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804173469.jpg?v=1731868951","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-empire-of-the-senses-9780804173469","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}