{"product_id":"bronsteins-children-paperback","title":"Bronstein's Children - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJurek Becker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"East Berlin, 1973: an 18-year-old Jew discovers that his father's friends are holding prisoner a former Nazi concentration camp guard in the family cottage. The three older men have handcuffed the ex-Nazi to the bed and are interrogating and torturing him in an attempt to get him to admit to his war crimes. . . . Becker keenly shows the tension between members of the Holocaust generation and their children, who are unable to understand the complexity of that nightmarish era of human history.\"-\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[A] chilly, disquieting novel about historical slippage; about the seemingly inevitable decline of horror into a vague and generic recollection. The East German writer has devised something between story and allegory to evoke the cold generational millennium that separates a father, with his concentration-camp memories, from a son, adrift in a society with no memories whatsoever.\"-Richard Eder, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mr. Becker, writing simply and clearly in an unstrained narrative, speaks with the voice of knowledge, and we do well to listen to him.\"-Eva Figes, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jurek Becker (1937-1998) is the author of \u003ci\u003eJacob the Liar, Sleepless Days, The Boxer, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmanda Herzlos.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.4 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724543430719,"sku":"9780226041278","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2620986ba9b29487956f68597785fc35.webp?v=1765103030","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/bronsteins-children-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}