{"product_id":"9781590175286","title":"School for Love","description":"Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe  fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an  end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish  populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in  Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to  England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a  boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun  is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a  fundamentalist group known as the Ever-Readies—joy, charity, and  love—even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a  fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary  routine for good.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOlivia Manning’s great subject is the lives of ordinary people  caught up in history. Here, as in her panoramic depiction of World War II, \u003ci\u003eThe Balkan Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e,  she offers a rich and psychologically nuanced story of life on the  precipice, and she tells it with equal parts compassion, skepticism, and  humor.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137944076528,"sku":"9781590175286","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175286_p0.jpg?v=1763806670","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175286","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}