{"product_id":"the-empusium-olga-tokarczuk-9780593712948","title":"The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Gbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A century after the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Olga Tokarczuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593712943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593712948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024 pg. 4","brand":"Olga Tokarczuk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44810022519039,"sku":"9780593712948","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d370756-51db-458c-8701-d301f83b91a8.jpg?v=1707928118","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-empusium-olga-tokarczuk-9780593712948","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}