{"product_id":"let-it-destroy-you-paperback","title":"Let It Destroy You - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarriet Alida Lye\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Honey Farm\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNatural Killer.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is August 12, 1945. Tomorrow, August Snow will be tried at the International War Crimes Court for patenting a more lethal variation on the atomic bomb. He invented a radiation machine to cure his young daughter's cancer, despite knowing that the very same technology was capable of great destruction, and inevitably profited from disaster. But are his intentions relevant when the fate of the world is at stake? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAugust's former wife, June, will also attend the hearing. Restless in her Hague hotel room the night before, she keeps watch over their daughter and reflects on the events that brought them here. She had nothing to do with making the bomb. But is she innocent? Wouldn't any wife and mother have done the same thing in her shoes? And now, will it cost her everything? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by the physicist Leó Szilárd and the letters he wrote his wife, Gertrud \"Trude\" Weiss, \u003ci\u003e Let It Destroy You \u003c\/i\u003eis told in parallel narratives and ventures from Budapest to Berlin to Colorado, and back to Europe. It is a love story about two people whose destinies are bound by everything they share, and all that they've kept from one another. Above all, it is a testament to the logic-defying love of a parent who will stop at nothing to protect their child.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHARRIET ALIDA LYE is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Honey Farm \u003c\/i\u003eand the memoir \u003ci\u003eNatural Killer\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Globe and Mail, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eNational Post, The Happy Reader, Hazlitt, Vice, Catapult, \u003c\/i\u003eand more. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.31 x 5.62 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42688995295295,"sku":"9780771000423","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/466fa27ec2851b4e8a8132c59d1f3353.webp?v=1764984082","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/let-it-destroy-you-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}