{"product_id":"9780804173469","title":"The Empire of the Senses: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e San Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Empire of the Senses is an enthralling tale of love and war, duty and self-discovery. It begins in 1914 when Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated German Jew fighting in World War I, finds unexpected companionship on the Eastern Front; back at home, his wife Josephine embarks on a clandestine affair of her own. A decade later, during the heady, politically charged interwar years in Berlin, their children—one, a nascent Fascist struggling with his sexuality, the other a young woman entranced by the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age—experience their own romantic awakenings. With a painter’s sensibility for the layered images that comprise our lives, this exquisite novel by Alexis Landau marks the emergence of a writer uniquely talented in bringing the past to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015254753520,"sku":"9780804173469","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804173469_p0.jpg?v=1763728768","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804173469","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}