{"product_id":"2940170810321","title":"The World That We Knew: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dovekeepers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of Opposites\u003c\/i\u003e comes Alice Hoffman¿s darkly magical story of in a heartbreaking time of war when men became monsters, children navigated a world without parents, and women were willing to sacrifice everything for those they loved.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Berlin, at the time when the world changed forever, Hanni Kohn knows she has to send her 12-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. Turning to an old woman who is familiar with Jewish magic, she finds her way to the daughter of a rabbi who creates a Golem, a mystical Jewish creature sworn to protect Hanni¿s precious daughter Lea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLea¿s journey with the Golem to France is fraught with danger and raw emotion. They travel from Paris, where Lea meets her soulmate, to a convent in western France known for its silver roses, to a mountaintop village where 3,000 Jews were saved, to a farm where the bees never forgive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to lose your mother? What makes a family? How is it possible to survive cruelty and continue to love? In a life that is as unreal as a fairytale, Alice Hoffman¿s \u003ci\u003eThe World That We Knew\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a journey of loss and resistance, good and evil, the fantastical and the mortal, to a place where all roads lead past the angel of death and love is never-ending.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105178140912,"sku":"2940170810321","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170810321_p0.jpg?v=1763718239","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170810321","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}