{"product_id":"2940169728545","title":"The Confabulist: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cellist of Sarajevo\u003c\/i\u003e, an exciting new novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a tale of magic, intrigue, and illusion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is real and what is an illusion? Can you trust your memory to provide an accurate record of what has happened in your life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Confabulist \u003c\/i\u003eis a clever , entertaining, and suspenseful narrative that weaves together the rise and fall of world-famous Harry Houdini with the surprising story  of Martin Strauss, an unknown man whose fate seems forever tied to the magician's in a way that will ultimately  startle and amaze. It is at once a vivid portrait of an alluring, late-nineteenth\/early-twentieth-century world; a front-row seat to a world-class magic show; and an unexpected love story. In the end, the book is a kind of magic trick in itself: there is much more to Martin than meets the eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorically rich and ingeniously told, this is a novel about magic and memory, truth and illusion, and the ways that love, hope, grief, and imagination can - for better or for worse - alter what we perceive and believe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100490252528,"sku":"2940169728545","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169728545_p0.jpg?v=1763692432","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169728545","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}