{"product_id":"under-the-pear-tree","title":"Armut Ağacının Altında","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when a man thinks he can manage a murder as neatly as he runs his inn?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Tschechin, a village in the flat, marshy Oderbruch, Abel Hradscheck keeps an inn and shop. Clever and sociable, he is also deep in debt. Then Szulski arrives: a Polish commercial traveller who collects money for the firm Hradscheck owes. He carries cash, and his visit puts temptation close at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Under the Pear Tree, Theodor Fontane follows a crime into a household and out through a watching village. Ursel Hradscheck shares her husband's strain, and her loyalty faces a test. Neighbours notice, gossip and guess, sometimes wrongly. The tension lies less in solving a puzzle than in watching guilt work on a man who believes he remains in control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAn innkeeper under pressure\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet Abel Hradscheck, whose easy manner offers no escape from the debts closing around him.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA dangerous visitor\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Szulski into an inn where the money he carries becomes a temptation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA village full of guesses\u003c\/strong\u003e – Watch small observations become rumours as neighbours struggle to make sense of wrongdoing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLoyalty under strain\u003c\/strong\u003e – See how growing trouble tests Ursel Hradscheck within the household she shares with Abel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA quiet telling of crime\u003c\/strong\u003e – Feel the tension between Fontane's calm village chronicle and the guilt at its centre.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who prefer guilt and community to detective puzzles, and anyone curious about nineteenth-century German fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and enter a quiet village where wrongdoing reaches beyond one troubled household.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534704673116,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/08127_en_ebook-front_c13.jpg?v=1792175111","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/tr\/products\/under-the-pear-tree","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}