{"product_id":"the-magic-mountain-by-thomas-mann-9780749386429","title":"The Magic Mountain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e is a European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner, exploring the lure and degeneration of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs Seen on BBC Between the Covers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e presents Hans Castorp as 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he visits his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three-week trip turns into a seven-year stay. Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic—ideas which will strain and crack apart in a world on the verge of World War I.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Magnificent... a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love' \u003c\/em\u003e—Jonathan Coe, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The greatest German novelist of the 20th century' \u003c\/em\u003e—Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46298786201836,"sku":"9780749386429","price":29.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81hV2vZby3L._SL1500.jpg?v=1763077451","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-magic-mountain-by-thomas-mann-9780749386429","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}