{"product_id":"9781452088600","title":"For All We Know: We May Never Meet Again","description":"The book (fiction) tells an engaging original story an epic sweeping drama with\u003cbr\u003e character driven pictures…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbspDuring the 1930’s Baron Jacques Chavalmont the wealthy and respected\u003cbr\u003e President and Chief Executive of an infl uential private merchant bank in Paris\u003cbr\u003e became concerned by developments in Germany and meticulously crafted a plan\u003cbr\u003e for the survival of his extended family should a war ensue.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbspThe Plan required the transfer of substantial assets – bullion, currencies, art and\u003cbr\u003e jewelry for safekeeping in the Baron’s Bank (The Bancario di Milano) in Buenos\u003cbr\u003e Aires. The Baron arranged for his ambitious son-in-law Caetano di Rosario to\u003cbr\u003e manage the Bancario.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbspThe book narrates how its characters a disparate group of talented men and\u003cbr\u003e women from Italy, Germany, Latvia, and Entre Rios (Argentina): Caetano Di\u003cbr\u003e Rosario, his wife Marie-Helene, their son Alain, Max Elman and his paramour\u003cbr\u003e Francine, Dr. Manfred Lowen, and Kathleen McCloud (from Entre Rios) converged\u003cbr\u003e on Buenos Aires during the 1930’s. It relates their dreams, hopes, frustrations,\u003cbr\u003e passions, romances, adultery, greed and dishonesty.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbspIt describes how the new Buenos Aires residents successfully adapted to their\u003cbr\u003e new environment and how their lives interacted over time against the backdrop of\u003cbr\u003e events (leading to and after the Second World War) which took place in England,\u003cbr\u003e France, Germany, Monte Carlo, Latvia, Israel and Buenos Aires.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u003cb\u003eThe immigrants never saw their loved families again… Most had perished\u003cbr\u003e in the Holocaust…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbsp\u0026amp;nbspAfter the end of the Second World War a small group of European family\u003cbr\u003e survivors sued Caetano di Rosario and the Bancario in Buenos Aires for the recovery\u003cbr\u003e of their families’ deposited assets. The fully described litigation process culminated\u003cbr\u003e in a most interesting denouement that directly aff ected Caetano, Marie-Helene,\u003cbr\u003e Alain, Kathleen, Manfred and Sandra\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124066599152,"sku":"9781452088600","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452088600_p0.jpg?v=1763840197","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452088600","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}