{"product_id":"book-e3iq","title":"What Happens at Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis atmospheric, suspenseful story of a couple staying in a fading, grand European hotel as they struggle to adopt a baby \"finds its home among the mid-twentieth-century classics of psychological realism, as brutal, in its way, as \u003ci\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, and just as memorable, just as peopled with the deep human mysteries\" (Rick Moody).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this atmospheric, suspenseful novel, an American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. Their difficult journey leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her apparent illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe couple check into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open, the restaurant serves thirteen-course dinners from centuries past, and the doors of the guest rooms have been salvaged from demolished opera houses. Their attempt to claim their baby is both helped and hampered by the people they encounter: an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse, a debauched businessman, an enigmatic faith healer, and a stoic bartender who dispenses an addictive, lichen-flavored schnapps. Nothing is as it seems in this mysterious, frozen world, and the longer the couple endure the punishing cold the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Happens at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"masterpiece\" (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by \"an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer\" (Richard Eder, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49371584495920,"sku":"BDe3iq","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49371584528688,"sku":"10e3iq","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/e3iq-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773842152","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-e3iq","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}