{"product_id":"9781566560559","title":"The Weight of Paradise","description":"While making a documentary film about the reconstruction of downtown Beirut, Maya Amer stumbles upon a battered leather suitcase that will change her life forever. Inside it she finds letters, photographs, a diary, and an envelope labeled: Letters from Istanbul. The Weight of Paradise is both the story of Maya and her discovery, and also the story of the owner of these papers, Noura Abu Sawwan, a journalist who fled Syria just before the Lebanese civil war to find greater freedom of expression. A multi-voiced, multi-genre narration, it interweaves the stories of these two women and the people who surround them within the fabric of Beirut in the civil war and its immediate aftermath. A love story as well as a story of women's liberation and political freedom, the novel is also the tale of a city and country torn apart by repression, occupation, and war.","brand":"Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017995632880,"sku":"9781566560559","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566560559_p0.jpg?v=1763789514","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566560559","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}