{"product_id":"trick-a-novel-9781501155833","title":"Trick : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eSweeping between Prague during World War II and modern-day Los Angeles, \"The Trick is a lyrical, uplifting, and funny story that will tug at all of your heartstrings\" (Armando Lucas Correa, bestselling author of The German Girl) that follows a young boy seeking out a cynical, old magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together. In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini, just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeventy years later in Los Angeles, ten-year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that captured Zabbatini performing his greatest illusions. But the track in which Zabbatini performs the spell of eternal love--the spell Max believes will keep his parents from getting divorced--is damaged beyond repair. Desperate for a solution, Max seeks out the now elderly, cynical magician and begs him for help.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith gentle wisdom and heartbreaking humor, this is an inventive, deeply moving story about a young boy who needs a miracle, and a disillusioned old man who needs redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SIMON \u0026 SCHUSTER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973767368870,"sku":"9781501155833","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9781501155833_1_b4076a67-790a-4a32-be31-0a6dc2132b4f.jpg?v=1656048968","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/trick-a-novel-9781501155833","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}