{"product_id":"9781250117144","title":"The House On Prague Street: A Haunting Story of a Girl's Survival","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe House on Prague Street \u003c\/i\u003eis a story told with translucent simplicity and freshness.  It is a story of haunting innocence and terrible devastation, of lost love, of survival.  It has an impact we have not felt since \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of Anne Frank \u003c\/i\u003eand John Hersey's \u003ci\u003eThe Wall.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, Helene Richter's childhood glows with an idyllic richness and grace.  Summers are spent in grandfather's great house on Prague Street, tranquil, shimmering days, strung together like shining jewels.  Until the war.  As the half-Jewish Helene reaches adolescence, her serene existence becomes a holocaust of disintegration and death.  Her uncles, aunts, cousins are gone–to a place called Theresienstadt, from which they send postcards once a month with the same message: \u003ci\u003ewe are well we are healthy thinking of you how are you.  \u003c\/i\u003eAs the war comes inexorably closer to her German father and her Jewish mother, Helene falls in love.  But the war will close in on that love too...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120969203952,"sku":"9781250117144","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250117144_p0.jpg?v=1769892436","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250117144","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}