{"product_id":"2940203144164","title":"The Apple of Knowledge.: THE DREAM OF CLEOPATRA . A novel about the one thing money can never buy...","description":"\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA novel about the one thing money can never buy... and the one thing we will destroy to possess.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhen the wealthy and powerful Boyarina Marfa witnesses a simple shepherd's love for a peasant girl, something inside her snaps. She has everything-status, land, the power of life and death over her serfs-but she has never been loved. Not truly. Not the way Mitri loves Natasha.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThen Cleopatra comes to her in dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe ancient Queen of the Nile, dead for fifteen hundred years, offers Marfa the secrets of seduction that once made men drown empires. Milk baths. Forbidden perfumes. The art of becoming a treasure locked in a fortress, a prize worth pursuing.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBut when every lesson fails, when the shepherd chooses his simple love over his mistress's wealth, Cleopatra offers one final gift: a small, withered apple. The Apple of Knowledge. Eat it, and he will forget everything but you. His past. His love. His soul. All burned away.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSet against the brutal beauty of medieval Russia-where winter lasts half the year, where peasants jump over Kupala fires in search of love, and where a woman's loneliness can curdle into something monstrous-this is a story about the difference between loving and possessing. About the fire that consumes and the sun that gives life. About the price of wanting what is not yours.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor fans of Russian psychological fiction, dark historical romance, and stories where myth and reality intertwine.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANNA GOGOLEVA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47902724227313,"sku":"2940203144164","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940203144164_p0.jpg?v=1774469769","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940203144164","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}