{"product_id":"death-in-persia-book-annemarie-schwarzenbach-9780857428233","title":"Death in Persia","description":"Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie  Schwarzenbach—journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and  antifascist novelist—has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the first time and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Death in Persia  is a collage of the political and the private, documenting  Schwarzenbach’s intimate feelings and public ideas during four trips to  Persia between 1933 and 1939. From her reflections on individual  responsibility in the lead-up to World War II to her reactions to  accusations from her friends of having deserted Europe and the  antifascist cause for Tehran, Schwarzenbach recorded a great deal about  daily life in Persia, and, most personally, her ill-fated love affair  with Jalé, the daughter of the Turkish ambassador. Chronologically preceding Schwarzenbach’s exquisite travelogue All the Roads are Open, an account of her automobile journey from Geneva to Afghanistan in 1939, Death in Persia  is the enthralling diary of an astute observer standing at the  crossroads of major events in history and a gorgeous new addition to  Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s growing English-language oeuvre.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737010250001,"sku":"NGR9780857428233","price":17.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0857428233.jpg?v=1751044329","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/death-in-persia-book-annemarie-schwarzenbach-9780857428233","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}