{"product_id":"child-of-the-ruins-trade-paperback","title":"Child Of The Ruins (Trade Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeople are disappearing. I spoke to my neighbour yesterday, we laughed at some nonsense, and today he is gone. We only discovered he was missing because the dog wouldn't stop howling and we all knew he would never leave his beloved pet. So I am careful, extremely careful.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI used to live in Berlin, on Prenzlauer Allee.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow I live in East Berlin, still on Prenzlauer Allee.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo many it may seem a difference scarcely worth mentioning, one small extra word added. But to me it is the difference between night and day, between life and death. In East Berlin no one trusts anybody any more.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwo families divided by war.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA entire city on the edge of disaster.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1948, Berlin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eRussian troops have closed all access to the city. Roads, railway lines and waterways are blocked and a city of two million people is trapped, relying on airlifts of food, water and medicine to survive. Anna and Ingrid are very different women resorting to very different ways to survive. But they both need to find those they love and, to do that, find a way to escape from Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Furnivall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43222830678194,"sku":"9781399713573","price":415.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781399713573.jpg?v=1698843972","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/child-of-the-ruins-trade-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}