{"product_id":"9780811220279","title":"Mr Norris Changes Trains","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo Englishmen meeting on a train to Berlin in 1930 kick off one of Isherwood’s most enduring novels\u003c\/p\u003e On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary,his creditors, and his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni. As the worldwide economic Depression strangles the masses and the Communists make a desperate stand against Fascism and war, Norris sells himself as political orator, spy, and double agent. He also sells his friends. Like its companion novel, \u003cem\u003eGoodbye to Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMr Norris Changes Trains\u003c\/em\u003e offers unforgettable characters struggling in the vortex as the Nazis rise to power.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079710621936,"sku":"9780811220279","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811220279_p0.jpg?v=1763811204","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811220279","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}