{"product_id":"palace-of-tears-eamonn-vincent-9781068703829","title":"Palace of Tears","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon, Cambridge, and Berlin, 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve Percival's life is already precarious when a chain of unexpected entanglements pulls him into the shadows of the Cold War. A mother with a past she cannot explain, a brilliant academic seeking to shape her own future, and a young woman with claims on Steve that go beyond affection - each draws him in a different direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Steve follows a cryptic trail to Berlin, he finds himself in a city divided not only by walls but by secrets. What he learns there forces him to confront the stories he has inherited and the ones he has told himself. Returning to Cambridge, he attempts to make sense of it all the only way he knows how: by writing a play. Its rehearsal room becomes a mirror of the world he has left behind - a world of loyalty, betrayal, and the dangerous consolations of truth told slant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePalace of Tears\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary Cold War novel where theatre and espionage illuminate one another. It examines the fault-lines between love and leverage, art and manipulation, and the ways our lives are shaped by the choices we barely understand at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second novel in The Thieves of Time, a sequence exploring art, identity, secrecy, and the lives we become under pressure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eamonn Vincent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1068703822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781068703829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arbuthnot Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.95d","brand":"Eamonn Vincent","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083720335615,"sku":"9781068703829","price":18.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/palace-of-tears-eamonn-vincent-9781068703829","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}