{"id":79604,"date":"2024-10-19T18:09:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T18:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=79604"},"modified":"2025-03-01T21:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T21:49:30","slug":"the-empusium-by-olga-tokarczuk-signed","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/the-empusium-by-olga-tokarczuk-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk (signed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone \u2026 elegant and genuinely unsettling.\u201d \u2013The New York Times Book Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nobel Prize winner\u2019s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz\u2019s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of G\u00f6rbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone\u2014or something\u2014seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target.<\/p>\n<p>A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>First Edition, Hardcover, signed by the author<br \/>\nPublished by Riverhead Books<br \/>\nSep 24, 2024 | 320 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780593712948<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! \u201cA folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone \u2026 elegant and genuinely unsettling.\u201d \u2013The New York Times Book Review The Nobel Prize winner\u2019s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas September 1913. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":79605,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[105,107],"product_tag":[780,779,778,332],"class_list":["post-79604","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-fiction","product_cat-first-editions","product_tag-nobel-prize","product_tag-olga-tokarczuk","product_tag-olga-tokarczuk-signed","product_tag-signed-first-edition","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/79604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=79604"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=79604"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=79604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}