{"product_id":"9781466850798","title":"Tales of the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThese eight stories are linked by a date and a motif.  All of them have to do with love.  Love and its conditions on the night of March 19, 1929.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his second book and his only collection of stories, Peter Høeg proves himself to be a true storyteller in the tradition of Karen Blixen and Joseph Conrad.  These beautifully constructed tales deal with love, the classic arts and sciences, and the confrontation of Western and non-Western cultures.  Moving from a railroad car in the Congo to a sailboat in Lisbon's harbor to an upper-class apartment in Copenhagen, they include the tales of a young, disillusioned mathematician who comes face-to-face with his culture's distorition of Africa; an esteemed judge who runs off with the young man he has just sentenced to prison for his homosexual tendencies; and a town--sealed off from the plague--that is infiltrated by a troupe of traveling actors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174526271728,"sku":"9781466850798","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466850798_p0.jpg?v=1769891510","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466850798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}