{"product_id":"9781590177952","title":"The Violins of Saint-Jacques","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption  on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to  raise a genuine shiver--possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a  small timeless masterpiece.\"--Phoebe Lou Adams, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatrick Leigh Fermor’s only novel displays the same lustrous way with words as his beloved travel trilogy (\u003ci\u003eA Time of Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBetween the Woods and the Water\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Road\u003c\/i\u003e), the memoir of his youthful walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This slim book starts with the\u003cbr\u003emeeting  of an English traveler and an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman on an  Aegean island. He is captivated by her painting of a busy Caribbean port  in the shadow of a volcano, which leads her to tell him the story of  her childhood in that town back at the beginning of the twentieth  century. The tale she unfolds, set in the tropical luxury of the island  of Saint-Jacques, is one of romantic intrigue and decadence involving  the descendants of slaves and a fading French aristocracy. Then, on the  night of the annual Mardi Gras ball, a whole world comes to a  catastrophic and haunting end.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184336158960,"sku":"9781590177952","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177952_p0.jpg?v=1763809453","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177952","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}