{"product_id":"9780553581652","title":"Die Upon a Kiss","description":"By: Barbara Hambly   | Series: Benjamin January \u003chr\u003eIn February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater’s impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it’s pitch-black in the alley where free man of color Benjamin January hears a slurred whisper, spies the flash of a knife, and is himself wounded as he rescues Belaggio from a vicious attack. Could competition for audiences—or for Belagio’s affections—provoke such violent skulduggery? Or is Shakespeare’s tragic tale, with its spectacle of a black man’s passion for a white beauty, one that some Creole citizen—or American parvenu—would do anything to keep off the stage? The soaring music will lead January into a tangle of love, hate, and greed more treacherous than any onstage drama, as he must discover who is responsible...and who will \u003cb\u003eDie Upon a Kiss\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46409949970659,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780553581652","price":51.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780553581652.jpg?v=1749302752","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9780553581652","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}