{"product_id":"the-house-by-the-lake","title":"The House by the Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to le\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eave when the Nazis swept to power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall had stood for nearly three decades. In a bid to save the house from demolition, Thomas began to unearth the history of the five families who had lived there: a nobleman farmer, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, a widow and her children and a Stasi informant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscovering stories of domestic joy and contentment, of terrible grief and tragedy, and of a hatred handed down through the generations, a history of twentieth century Germany and the story of a nation emerged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eFormat: P\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublis\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ehed: 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublish\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eer: Windmill Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages: 480\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780099592044\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Harding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56773063606603,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/images.jpg?v=1773247671","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/the-house-by-the-lake","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}