{"product_id":"games-a-love-story","title":"Games: A Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A complex, beautiful coming-of-age novel...a love story unlike any I've ever read.' \u003c\/b\u003e-ALI HAZELWOOD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A soulful book about the politics of labor and submission.' \u003c\/b\u003e-RAVEN LEILANI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sharp and provocative coming-of-age debut chronicling the turbulent romance between a brilliant economics grad student and a magnetic Wall Street banker two decades her senior.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Lili Marwan-seeking to escape the unrelenting pressures of her master's thesis, recent rejection from her foster family, and unresolved grief from the death of her parents-has an intense one-night stand with Aleksandr Petrov, her restless mind finally goes calm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-two, Lili is already opinionated beyond her years: whether it's astrology, democratic socialism, veganism, or the ravages of late-stage capitalism run rampant. But when a tall, dark stranger buys her a drink in a FiDi bar, she suddenly meets her match. Aleksandr is formidable, fiercely intelligent, and infuriatingly disarming. He's also more than two decades older than her, a Capricorn with a birth chart full of red flags, a neoliberal capitalist, and a strong believer in the power of free markets, having escaped the Soviet Union in its dying days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's the opposite of Lili in nearly every way. He challenges her at every turn. And she can't stay away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a heady New York City summer, Lili and Aleksandr reach across the divide of their differences and the decades of their lives, discovering startlingly shared experiences. Their casual arrangement-rough sex, hours where Lili does not need to make any decisions-gives way fast to an unexpected intimacy, by turns breathtaking, then devastating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Lili struggles to understand herself and the complicated threads of her ambition, pain, and desire, she will have to decide: is she willing to risk great loss again, for the hope of profit that is finally within reach \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54020819091794,"sku":"9780063437722","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_b3cceedc-5606-4f7f-94cc-26062ddbda82.jpg?v=1784287078","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/games-a-love-story","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}