{"product_id":"a-passion-in-the-desert-9781967751198","title":"A Passion in the Desert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"They ended as all great passions do--by a misunderstanding.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA French soldier escapes captivity and stumbles into something stranger than war: solitude, survival, and a wild intimacy with a panther in the sands of Egypt. What begins in fear turns to ritual, fascination, and a bond as mysterious as it is fatal. Balzac's tale is swift, elemental, and aching with ambiguity--half love story, half fable, all fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a novelist, obsessive chronicler, and architect of La Comédie Humaine--his vast, teeming portrait of French society. He wrote with feverish speed and forensic precision, capturing ambition, love, cruelty, and delusion in all their human excess.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705110626578,"sku":"9781967751198","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8539bab7-590e-4eb0-9543-f51666c08ffe.jpg?v=1762341108","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-passion-in-the-desert-9781967751198","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}