{"product_id":"9781939419194","title":"Remember the Scorpion","description":"\u003cbr\u003eLima, 1970: a tremendous earthquake has just struck the Peruvian capital, and mayhem reigns. Tensions are high, with a population reeling from the disaster and mesmerized by the World Cup. Enter detective Simon Weiss, tasked with solving two seemingly unrelated murders: the crucifying and beheading of a Japanese man in a pool hall and an apparent murder-by-hanging of an elderly Jewish man. Joined by Lieutenant Kato Kanashiro, whose deep ties to Japanese-Peruvian culture inform the case in surprisingly personal ways, Weiss traces the histories of two very different criminals and their crimes.\u003cp\u003eWeiss is haunted by the trauma of a childhood partly spent in a German concentration camp. Weiss is troubled — boozing, coke-snorting, and vengeful. He is unfaithful to his prostitute lover and takes up with a younger, married woman who is a fellow survivor of the Holocaust. Weiss and Kanashiro's banter is hilariously recorded with Goldemberg’s deadpan police procedural narration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond a simple pulp, \u003ci\u003eRemember the Scorpion\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the wreckage of the Second World War and reconstructs it in the conflicted psyche of a South American detective. Weiss must uncover the relation between the perpetrators and their crimes, while searching deep within himself to conquer his own demons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Unnamed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051743068400,"sku":"9781939419194","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781939419194_p0.jpg?v=1763664997","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781939419194","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}