{"product_id":"9780984611355","title":"The Wind At My Back Volume I","description":"Some of Elisa B. Chalem's most effective results as a sculptor combine elegance\u003cp\u003eof line with great visual imagery and compositional strength. This book-the first of two volumes of her memoirs-does the same in words. the writing is suave, informed, and deeply European in sensibility; it also rests on a solid sense of reality, of observation and assessment, that clarifies other people's lives as well as her own. Her life during the period covered in \"Sand Dunes and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSnow Caps\" was, if not unique, certainly uncommon and exotic. She grows up in Cairo in the most pampered of circumstances, as a Sephardic Jew of Greek extraction. she travels extensively in Europe and spends her high school years in Swiss boarding schools. Though she endures the early loss of a beloved father, she falls for the man of her dreams in a fairy-tale romance, has\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher first child, and seems to be leading a charmed life-until, with the rise of a nationalist Egyptian government, her whole world collapses. having become persona non grata in the country she has called home, she leaves to begin a new life elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Full Court Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50032384999664,"sku":"9780984611355","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780984611355_p0.jpg?v=1784243279","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984611355","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}