{"product_id":"2940012622631","title":"Salt Prints","description":"The love between two individuals in New York of the 1980s and ’90s is jeopardized by the centuries-old German-Jewish ambiguity between love and hate, fascination and fear, while it is equally characterized by the traditional mutual fecundation in science and the arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder both comical and tragic circumstances, they cope with the ever-present past, its imprints bitter like the salt prints, earliest grainy photo positives obtained from salted paper they find in Adolf-Eugene’s great-grandfather’s studio in Worms-on-Rhine. The town is the site of Germanic Siegfried legend and medieval kabbalah, “birthplace” of the first golem in Europe, and birthplace, in the thirties, of both Adolf and Henry. Eventually, Nazi parades prevailed while Henry was taken to safety by the “Children’s Transport.” In Adolf, the German failed dancer’s feverish imagination, fueled by his infatuation with Jewish mysticism and misinterpreted computer files on virtual companies financing human cloning, the golem and the clone become one. Under the spell of fearsome eugenics, he suspects his lover, a plastic surgeon and geneticist, of planning to clone him.","brand":"Publish America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48797208281328,"sku":"2940012622631","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012622631_p0.jpg?v=1770323902","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012622631","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}