{"product_id":"the-world-we-saw-burning","title":"The World We Saw Burning","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatías Roeder, a young man with an Italian father, German mother, and a sense of stagnation he is desperate to escape from, hops a boat from Peru to New York with vague plans but a firm intention to never go home again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis familiar story of migration--the odd jobs, the romances, the Bowery bars--goes sideways when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and he joins the US Air Force as part of a bombing crew. Matías is now Matthew, in the belly of a B-17, remade by the vertigo and rawness of aerial warfare. But the past comes roaring back when he trains his sights on his beloved grandfather's hometown of Hamburg. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatías's reckoning unfolds in the interstices of other stories, swapped by two more Peruvians - a journalist and a cabdriver - stuck in a present-day Madrid traffic jam, whose lives in Lima are now as distant as World War II was to their homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe World We Saw Burning is both a striking account of war and a reflection on identity and uprootedness in a time when everything seems on the verge of exploding or disappearing forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48140320178400,"sku":"9781917260084","price":3415.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9781917260084.jpg?v=1763450917","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/the-world-we-saw-burning","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}