{"product_id":"the-violins-of-saint-jacques-patrick-leigh-fermor-9781590177822","title":"The Violins of Saint-Jacques","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver--possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a small timeless masterpiece.\" --Phoebe Lou Adams, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatrick Leigh Fermor's only novel displays the same lustrous way with words as his beloved travel trilogy (\u003ci\u003eA Time of Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBetween the Woods and the Water\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Road\u003c\/i\u003e), the memoir of his youthful walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This slim book starts with the meeting of an English traveler and an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman on an Aegean island. He is captivated by her painting of a busy Caribbean port in the shadow of a volcano, which leads her to tell him the story of her childhood in that town back at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tale she unfolds, set in the tropical luxury of the island of Saint-Jacques, is one of romantic intrigue and decadence involving the descendants of slaves and a fading French aristocracy. Then, on the night of the annual Mardi Gras ball, a whole world comes to a catastrophic and haunting end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Leigh Fermor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590177827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590177822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Patrick Leigh Fermor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43979275305215,"sku":"9781590177822","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8b7384c6-23a1-4346-b2d1-f8dc09550e9b.jpg?v=1683244678","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-violins-of-saint-jacques-patrick-leigh-fermor-9781590177822","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}