{"product_id":"stargate-atlantis-season-two-dvd-0027616067869","title":"Stargate Atlantis: Season Two","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize - 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCity of Victoria Butler Book Prize Finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca\/Books in Canada First Novel Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can you stand up to tyranny when your own identity is in turmoil?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVietnam is a haunted country, and Dr. Nguyen Georges-Minh is a haunted man. In 1908, the French rule Saigon, but uneasily; dissent whispers through the corridors of the city. Each day, more Vietnamese rebels are paraded through the streets towards the gleaming blade of the guillotine, now a permanent fixture in the main square and a gruesome warning to those who would attempt to challenge colonial rule. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a warning that Georges-Minh will not heed. A Vietnamese national and Paris-educated physician, he is obsessed by guilt over his material wealth and nurses a secret loathing for the French connections that have made him rich, even as they have torn his beloved country apart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a close-knit group of his friends calling themselves the Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, Georges-Minh plots revenge on the French for the savagery they have shown to the Vietnamese. And it falls to Georges-Minh to create a poison to mix into the Christmas dinner of a garrison of French soldiers. It is an act that will send an unmistakable message to the French: Get out of Vietnam. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the assassination attempt goes horribly wrong. Forced to flee into the deep jungles of the outer provinces, Georges-Minh must care for his infant son, manage the growing madness of his wife, and elude capture by the hill tribes and the small - but lethal - pockets of French sympathizers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJourney Prize winner Yasuko Thanh transports us into a vivid, historical Vietnam, one that is filled with chaotic streets, teeming marketplaces, squalid opium dens, and angry ghosts that exist side by side with the living. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49687913562385,"sku":"DVDB000LC4ZI0VG","price":8.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53425544626449,"sku":"CINB000LC4ZI0G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B000LC4ZI0.jpg?v=1750809116","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/stargate-atlantis-season-two-dvd-0027616067869","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}