{"product_id":"the-valley-of-unknowing-0393239330-used","title":"The Valley of Unknowing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393239330\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sington, Philip\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemarkableSuperbly anchored in place and time[A] brilliant, evocative and accurate novel.-The Times (London) In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, author of a single world-famous novel written twenty years earlier, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West. But Theresa has also caught the eye of a cocky young scriptwriter who delights in satirizing Krugs work.Asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript, Bruno is disturbed to find that the author is none other than his rival. Disconcertingly, the book is good-very good. But there is hope for the older man: the unwelcome masterpiece is dangerously political. Krug decides that if his affair with Theresa is to prove more than a fling, he must employ a small deception. But in the Workers and Peasants State, knowing the deceiver from the deceived, the betrayer from the betrayed, isnt just difficult: it is a matter of life and death. Now the celebrated author and secret Stasi informer is ready to confessThe Valley of Unknowing is both a moving and entertaining love story and a seductive thriller, one that pits the past against the future, commerce against creativity, and art against life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67638281208096,"sku":"USED0393239330","price":5.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61PkkwJdnaL_eeeeb5ad-1cbb-46c1-9014-eb26a55e9237.jpg?v=1791238080","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-valley-of-unknowing-0393239330-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}