{"product_id":"9780812967173","title":"The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ede Saint-Exupery, Consuelo\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRandom House Trade Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1\/14\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry left his wife, Consuelo, to return  to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission  over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of  the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is Consuelo’s account of their extraordinary marriage. It is a love story  about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman  who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Consuelo Suncin Sandoval de Gómez  and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry met in Buenos Aires in 1930—she a seductive young widow,  he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts  of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite  for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their  first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Their love affair and marriage  would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take  them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating  abandonment and tender, poetic love. Several times in the course of their marriage  they would go their separate ways, but always they would return. \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the  Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a man of extravagant dreams, and of the woman who was his muse,  the inspiration for the Little Prince’s beloved rose—unique in all the world—whom  he could not live with and could not live without.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Written on Long Island in a quiet  spell of reconciliation, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e was Antoine’s greatest gift to the woman  he never stopped loving, the only child to emerge from their union. \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the  Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is Consuelo’s reply—the love letter she never could write to her husband—a fable  of its own, just as magical, poetic, and tragic as \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We find in these pages all the tenderness and patience, but also the tenacity, of a woman who loves. Consuelo does not seek to explain or even to understand her husband, she accepts him and leads him to what he must be. . . . Written with a strong and authentic voice, \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is a book to read for its strength of character, and for the adventure that it offers.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43383092642047,"sku":"9780812967173","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780812967173_s600x595.jpg?v=1775586082","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780812967173","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}