{"product_id":"strangers-in-budapest-paperback","title":"Strangers in Budapest - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Keener\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Jessica Keener has written a gorgeous, lyrical, and sweeping novel about the tangled web of past and present. Suspenseful, perceptive, fast-paced, and ultimately restorative.\" --Susan Henderson, author of \u003ci\u003eUp from the Blue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody past. It is to this enigmatic European capital that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move from Boston with their infant son shortly after the fall of the Communist regime. For Annie, it is an effort to escape the ghosts that haunt her past, and Will wants simply to seize the chance to build a new future for his family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eight months after their move, their efforts to assimilate are thrown into turmoil when they receive a message from friends in the US asking that they check up on an elderly man, a fiercely independent Jewish American WWII veteran who helped free Hungarian Jews from a Nazi prison camp. They soon learn that the man, Edward Weiss, has come to Hungary to exact revenge on someone he is convinced seduced, married, and then murdered his daughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Annie, unable to resist anyone's call for help, recklessly joins in the old man's plan to track down his former son-in-law and confront him, while Will, pragmatic and cautious by nature, insists they have nothing to do with Weiss and his vendetta. What Annie does not anticipate is that in helping Edward she will become enmeshed in a dark and deadly conflict that will end in tragedy and a stunning loss of innocence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Atmospheric and surprising, \u003ci\u003eStrangers in Budapest\u003c\/i\u003e is, as bestselling novelist Caroline Leavitt says, a \"dazzlingly original tale about home, loss, and the persistence of love.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica Keener is the author of the bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eNight Swim\u003c\/i\u003e and an award-winning short story collection, \u003ci\u003eWomen in Bed\u003c\/i\u003e. Like the character in her novel, she lived in Budapest in the 1990s; she now lives with her husband in the Boston area, where she is a writing consultant for Grub Street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247599370489,"sku":"9781616208646","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/LzFoeHlwSVpKTi8wYlphZHlhRWllUT09.webp?v=1768626807","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/strangers-in-budapest-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}