{"product_id":"two-women-and-a-poisoning","title":"Two Women and a Poisoning","description":"\u003cb\u003eA marriage gone horribly wrong; a secret female friendship and affair; a murder plot. This precursor to the true crime genre is told by Alfred D blin, one of the giants of 20th century German literature and author of \u003ci\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Top 100 Books of All Time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat would it take for a woman to poison her husband? Young couple Elli and Link have been married for a year when Elli meets Gretchen, and the two soon become friends. When Elli confides in her friend about the abuse she suffers at her husband's hands, they hatch a plan for Elli to escape. But when their efforts prove unsuccessful, the pair begin to discuss a more permanent solution to Elli's problem: poison.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on a famous murder trial which took place in Berlin in 1923, this short novel by the master of German modernism, Alfred D blin, explores questions of moral culpability and societal expectations which remain as relevant today as in the 1920s.","brand":"Alfred Döblin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516745351229,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781922330383.jpg?v=1787571319","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/two-women-and-a-poisoning","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}