{"product_id":"2940169269109","title":"Wunderland: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood, and legacy by an award-winning novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEast Village, 1989\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThings had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother, Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war¿s final months? But now, Ilse¿s ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else unknown to Ava: Renate Bauer, a childhood friend. As her mother¿s letters unfurl a dark past, Ava spirals deep into the shocking history of a woman she never truly knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerlin, 1933\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the Nazi party tightens its grip on the city, Ilse and Renate find their friendship under siege amp;mdash; and Ilse¿s increasing involvement in the Hitler Youth movement leaves them on opposing sides of the gathering storm. Then the Nuremburg Laws force Renate to confront a long-buried past, and a catastrophic betrayal is set in motion....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unflinching exploration of Nazi Germany and its legacy, Wunderland is a at once a powerful portrait of an unspeakable crime history and a pause-resisting contemplation of womanhood, wartime, and just how far we might go in order to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116465340656,"sku":"2940169269109","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169269109_p0.jpg?v=1763772444","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169269109","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}