{"product_id":"the-mountain-9798224198986","title":"The Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Antonelli\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: La Toyson d'Or Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: La Toyson d'Or Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Anderson is an American journalist in Yugoslavia covering the Croatian War of Independence when he discovers just a few days before a Serbian invasion that his musician wife Anna had just ended a yearlong affair. He forgives her at first as they desperately plan their escape across a mountain and through a war zone, towards the safety of the Hungarian border. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly a few days later his distrust re-emerges when they meet a soldier who appears to flirt, and then disappear with her. In a fit of jealousy he abandons her altogether and ventures forth by himself on an odyssey of self-discovery. When he encounters a massacre in a small village he starts to wonder if he has made a grave mistake and unwittingly endangered her life. Striken with guilt he desperately tries to find her and save her from the tragic fate he believes he helped create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls in its portrayal of war and its effect on human relationships, but with a deeper sense of psychological introspection, The Mountain is the second part of the Andrássy út trilogy, a series of three thematically related novels about American protagonists in Eastern Europe exploring love and deception against the background of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne reviewer gave it 5 stars and said: 'This is a more than worthy follow up to the first novel in this series - a story about war and its affect on relationships as much as it is the personal path of self discovery for the protagonist...great writing too! \"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Toyson d'Or Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47571483099287,"sku":"9798224198986","price":1405.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798224198986.webp?v=1774887366","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-mountain-9798224198986","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}