{"product_id":"book-k0wm","title":"The New Internationals","description":"A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a\u003cbr\u003eportrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history\u003cbr\u003eParis, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in shambles and an\u003cbr\u003eunraveled social fabric. Alongside the wary and war-weary population, American GIs and young people from\u003cbr\u003eFrance’s colonies also pack the city. Cecile Rosenbaum, from a bourgeois Jewish family that has lost everything,\u003cbr\u003emeets Minette Traoré, a feisty, French-born girl of Senegalese descent, on the bus to a Communist Youth\u003cbr\u003eConference. There, she also meets Sebastien Danxomè, an aspiring architecture student from West Africa,\u003cbr\u003eand romance blooms.\u003cbr\u003eBack in Paris, as these young internationals haunt the cafés and jazz clubs of the Latin Quarter, Cecile and\u003cbr\u003eSebastien find their budding love muddied by confused loyalties and unyielding cultural traditions. When Mack\u003cbr\u003eGray, a charming African-American GI, sets his sights on Cecile, her complicated relationship with Sebastien,\u003cbr\u003eas well as her fierce dedication to her newfound political ideologies, are pushed to the brink.\u003cbr\u003eNuanced, powerful, and sharply realized, The New Internationals chronicles the post-war awakening and the\u003cbr\u003eyoung women and men who rose up – and came together – in the beginnings of a vibrant political moment,\u003cbr\u003etrying to imagine a better world.","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49507757031728,"sku":"BDk0wm","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":50115569975600,"sku":"ZEk0wm","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":50115570008368,"sku":"ZMk0wm","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/688554-k0wm-Square.jpg?v=1738763129","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-k0wm","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}