{"product_id":"9781681370538","title":"Rock Crystal","description":"Seemingly  the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock  Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This  jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as \"one of the  most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and  the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature\" is among the  most unusual, moving, and memorable of Christmas stories. Two  children—Conrad and his little sister, Sanna—set out from their village  high up in the Alps to visit their grandparents in the neighboring  valley. It is the day before Christmas but the weather is mild, though  of course night falls early in December and the children are warned not  to linger. The grandparents welcome the children with presents and pack  them off with kisses. Then snow begins to fall, ever more thickly and  steadily. Undaunted, the children press on, only to take a wrong turn.  The snow rises higher and higher, time passes: it is deep night when the  sky clears and Conrad and Sanna discover themselves out on a glacier,  terrifying and beautiful, the heart of the void. Adalbert Stifter's rapt  and enigmatic tale, beautifully translated by Elizabeth Mayer and  Marianne Moore, explores what can be found between Christmas Eve and  Christmas Day—or on any night of the year.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139710566640,"sku":"9781681370538","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681370538_p0.jpg?v=1763692251","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681370538","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}