{"product_id":"song-of-sorrow","title":"Song of Sorrow","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eWhat if a violin could tell the story of its owners across a century?\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eOne violin. One curse. One hundred years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eGermany 1871. A violin of pure perfection. Crafted with love by its creator and set to make him and his family a fortune. His wife, Katharina, is duped by a powerful businessman and their dreams of a better life lie shattered.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eDistraught, Katharina wishes her husband had never created his masterpiece and in anger places a curse on the instrument. For the following 100 years, anyone who plays her husband’s violin will die an untimely death.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAnd so begins the poignant journey of the violin through the century.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eEight linked stories set against the brutality of the 20th Century. From the trenches of the First World War to the evil of Nazism; the Second World War and the brutality of the Holocaust, through to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFortunes rise and fall in a terrible refrain… Unrequited love, friends betrayed, terrible secrets exposed, families torn apart. Can the soaring purity of the music the violin produces save them?\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eWho will survive the curse of the violin? Eight people scattered across the century, each cursed by a single violin and its everlasting Song of Sorrow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"","brand":"Rathbone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48030731534640,"sku":"9781838013462","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781838013462.jpg?v=1728564074","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/song-of-sorrow","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}