{"product_id":"constellation","title":"Constellation","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 27 October 1949, a Lockheed Constellation passenger plane left Paris for New York. Hours later, it disappeared on approach to its scheduled stopover in the Azores. It was found on a mountainside five miles from its intended landing zone. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere were no survivors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong those lost in the accident were heavyweight boxer Marcel Cerdan flying to New York for a world title fight; 30-year-old virtuoso violinist Ginette Neveu; Kay Kamen, Walt Disney's merchandising tsar; five Basque shepherds emigrating to America; a pilot who ran missions for the Free French during the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstellation \u003c\/i\u003etells the untold true stories of the forty-eight men and women who died on board, and paints a moving portrait of their place in the changing post-war world and of their hopes and dreams for the life awaiting them across the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrien Bosc's magnetic debut novel is a memorial to an air disaster that happened half a century ago. But it is also a love song to the forgotten lives that every tragedy scatters around it like so much debris, and a poignant investigation into the nature of collective tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791187734707,"sku":"9781781255377","price":479.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478120699781781255377.jpg?v=1762853517","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/constellation","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}