{"product_id":"2940170615612","title":"To The Wedding","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTo the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e John Berger offers us a sharply modern situation set in the traditionally pastoral and idyllic background of rural Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Beautiful, vibrant Ninon falls in love and becomes engaged to a young Italian, Gino, but soon before their wedding she discovers that she has contracted HIV through a brief encounter several years earlier. She tries to break the engagement but Gino, in an act of passionate and redemptive love, insists that the marriage will occur. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wedding itself, celebrated in a little village on the Po delta, becomes a magical feast in which all the novel's lost and searching souls, including Ninon's grieving father, Jean, and her mother, Zdena, a Slovakian intellectual who left Jean and Ninon many years earlier, are drawn into the joyful circle and regenerated by the power of Gino and Ninon's timeless love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerger demonstrates that even the cruelest fate can be endured and even transcended through courage, love, and determination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102442832112,"sku":"2940170615612","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170615612_p0.jpg?v=1763714193","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170615612","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}