{"product_id":"the-hollow-bones-leah-kaminsky-9781760899868","title":"The Hollow Bones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hollow Bones\u003c\/em\u003e implores us to pay careful attention to the crucial lessons we might learn from our not-too-distant history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their special talents for mimicry. They steal the songs from others, you said. I want to ask you this: how were our own songs stolen from us, the notes dispersed, while our faces were turned away?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerlin, 1936. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologist and keen hunter and collector, has come to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who invites him to lead a group of SS scientists to the frozen mountains of Tibet. Their secret mission: to search for the origins of the Aryan race. Ernst has doubts initially but soon seizes the opportunity to rise through the ranks of the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Ernst prepares for the trip, he marries Herta, his childhood sweetheart. But Herta, a flautist who refuses to play from the songbook of womanhood and marriage under the Reich, grows increasingly suspicious of Ernst and his expedition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Ernst and his colleagues finally leave Germany in 1938, they realize the world has its eyes fixed on the horror they have left behind in their homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lyrical and poignant cautionary tale, The Hollow Bones brings to life one of the Nazi regime’s little-known villains through the eyes of the animals he destroyed and the wife he undermined in the name of science and cold ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e**************\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eLeah Kaminsky (Author)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeah Kaminsky is a physician and award-winning writer. Her debut novel, The Waiting Room, won the Voss Literary Prize. The Hollow Bones won both the Literary Fiction and Historical Fiction categories of the 2019 International Book Awards, and the 2019 American Book Fest’s Best Book Award for Literary Fiction. She has written for many publications including the BBC, Monocle and HuffPo, and holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43467596103837,"sku":"9781760899868","price":138.84,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/Jacket_6652fa56-a8e4-42ea-8897-8b571d530143.jpg?v=1691229159","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/the-hollow-bones-leah-kaminsky-9781760899868","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}