{"product_id":"fortune-9781951627294","title":"Fortune","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn audacious, entertaining historical epic spanning continents and centuries, for readers of David Mitchell, Colum McCann, Kate Atkinson, and Eleanor Catton.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling, endlessly surprising historical novel that opens the day Napoleon leads his victorious Grande Arm e into Berlin after having conquered Prussia in battle. As crowds throng the streets to witness the emperor in his glory, a handful of lives that briefly touch are sprung from their orbits and set on courses that will take them across Europe and around the world--their fates and desires sometimes intersecting--to strange lands in the Caribbean and South America, the Australian continent and Van Diemen's Land, and back to a Europe now transformed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA frustrated general in Napoleon's army, billeted with one of Berlin's finest families. Elisabeth, a passionate young woman living in that house. The young man with whom she locks eyes through a window as he's engaged in a sexual encounter at the moment Napoleon makes his grand entrance. An entrepreneur in New World exotica, whose house is the setting for the tryst. A slave from Suriname, Mr. Hendrik, with his resentful white American companion, who have traveled to Berlin to sell a barrel of electric eels for their master. And a lost soul enamored of philosophy in the coffeehouses where students gather, who decides to join Mr. Hendrik and the American on their return voyage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through their stories amid war, cataclysm, colliding cultures, and misadventure, Lenny Bartulin imagines the ways that chance and the grand events of history shape the course of ordinary lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781951627294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312","brand":"Lenny Bartulin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38294862266549,"sku":"9781951627294","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0c50a23d-ecda-4bcc-bdaf-3f070f666cd5.jpg?v=1611068822","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fortune-9781951627294","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}