{"product_id":"2940169296105","title":"The Last Days of New Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thriller of war that never was-of survival in an impossible city-of surreal cataclysm. In \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of New Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Beauty will be convulsive. . . .\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer-and occult disciple-Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts-and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties-to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150306558192,"sku":"2940169296105","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169296105_p0.jpg?v=1763679018","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169296105","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}