{"product_id":"9781917189286","title":"Darkenbloom","description":"\u003cp\u003eA panoramic novel of European history, by an internationally bestselling writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe whole truth, as the name implies, is the collective knowledge of all those involved. Which is why you can never piece it together again properly afterwards. Because a few of those who possessed a part of it are always already dead. Or lying, or their memories are bad. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's 1989, and in a small town on the Austria-Hungary border, nobody talks about the war; the older residents pretend not to remember, and the younger ones are too busy making plans to leave. The walls are thin, the curtains twitch, there is a face at every window, and everyone knows what they are not supposed to say.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut as thousands of East German refugees mass at the border, it seems that the past is knocking on Darkenbloom's door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStill, though, nobody talks about the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUntil a mysterious visitor shows up asking questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUntil townspeople start receiving threatening letters and even disappearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUntil a body is found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDarkenbloom is a sweeping novel of exiled counts, Nazis-turned-Soviet-enforcers, secret marriages, mislabelled graves, remembrance, guilt, and the devastating power of silence, by one of Austria's most significant contemporary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribe Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48658562941163,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":25.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781917189286-1.jpg?v=1781711463","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781917189286","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}