{"product_id":"distant-music","title":"Distant Music","description":"Description for DISTANT MUSIC by Lee Langley: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nA richly imaginative novel of love, loss, time and the rise and fall of a great maritime empire, that sends two thwarted lovers spiralling through the chaos of history. \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nThe story begins in 1429 on Madeira, when a peasant girl meets a boy--a Jewish outsider--from a Portuguese sailing ship. Esperanza and Emmanuel know they must part when the ship sails. From that first meeting and parting, others follow... \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nEmmanuel is in turn sailor, mapmaker, bookseller, jazz musician; Esperanza an illiterate peasant, a rich girl in Faro and a clever, bookish recluse who confronts a murderer in nineteenth-century Lisbon. In twentieth-century London, Esperanza is faced with a double incarnation, one of the true Emmanuel and the other a shadow. Over the centuries the couple face peril and tenderness. Each life is short. What survives is love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955597021400,"sku":"9781571310408","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/DistantMusic.jpg?v=1655016506","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/distant-music","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}