{"product_id":"the-mountain-david-antonelli-9798224198986","title":"The Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Anderson is an American journalist in Yugoslavia covering the Croatian War of Independence when he discovers just a few days before a Serbian invasion that his musician wife Anna had just ended a yearlong affair. He forgives her at first as they desperately plan their escape across a mountain and through a war zone, towards the safety of the Hungarian border. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly a few days later his distrust re-emerges when they meet a soldier who appears to flirt, and then disappear with her. In a fit of jealousy he abandons her altogether and ventures forth by himself on an odyssey of self-discovery. When he encounters a massacre in a small village he starts to wonder if he has made a grave mistake and unwittingly endangered her life. Striken with guilt he desperately tries to find her and save her from the tragic fate he believes he helped create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls in its portrayal of war and its effect on human relationships, but with a deeper sense of psychological introspection, The Mountain is the second part of the Andrássy út trilogy, a series of three thematically related novels about American protagonists in Eastern Europe exploring love and deception against the background of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne reviewer gave it 5 stars and said: 'This is a more than worthy follow up to the first novel in this series - a story about war and its affect on relationships as much as it is the personal path of self discovery for the protagonist...great writing too! \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Antonelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798224198986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e La Toyson d'Or Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.39d","brand":"David Antonelli","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48850928566527,"sku":"9798224198986","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mountain-david-antonelli-9798224198986","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}