{"product_id":"landscape-in-concrete-paperback","title":"Landscape in Concrete - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJakov Lind\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is this book that confirms Lind's status as an author of international importance.--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSergeant Gauthier Bachmann is the perfect Nazi soldier. But after a horrifying defeat at Voroshenko, where most of his Eighth Hessian Infantry Regiment was slaughtered in a single instant, Bachmann was declared mentally unfit to serve. Incapable of accepting this judgment, and of returning to his girlfriend and a quiet life as a gold- and silversmith, Bachmann wanders the war-ravaged countryside, trying to find a way to rejoin his regiment, or any regiment, and return to the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile trying to find his regiment and come to terms with the horrors he has seen and committed, the increasingly unstable Bachmann is manipulated by a series of figures from the war's underbelly--deserters and collaborators, corrupt officers and sexual predators--who induce him to carry out their venal missions, which they've justified against the background of institutionalized murder going on all around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContaining dark echoes of Jaroslav Hasek's \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/i\u003e, Jakov Lind's \u003ci\u003eLandscape in Concrete\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing and highly original imagining of (the) dimensions of evil including sadistic cruelty, of the condition of being a victim and the madness abroad which constitutes the virtual victory of Hitler if we fail to translate survival into freedom (Anthony Rudolf).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJakov Lind\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Vienna and survived the Second World War by fleeing into Germany, where he disguised himself as a Dutch deckhand. Regarded in his lifetime as a successor to Beckett and Kafka, Lind was posthumously awarded the Theodor Kramer Prize in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the great translators of the twentieth century. He translated G nter Grass, Bertolt Brecht, Louis-Ferdinand C line, Hermann Hesse, Peter Handke, and more. In 1982, PEN American Center created an award for translation in his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJakov Lind\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Vienna and survived the Second World War by fleeing into Germany, where he disguised himself as a Dutch deckhand. Regarded in his lifetime as a successor to Beckett and Kafka, Lind was posthumously awarded the Theodor Kramer Prize in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the great translators of the twentieth century. He translated Günter Grass, Bertolt Brecht, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hermann Hesse, Peter Handke, and more. In 1982, PEN American Center created an award for translation in his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 190\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.52 x 5.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700646252607,"sku":"9781934824146","price":16.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/736d25a2e35ef68d67f9158abea621b9.webp?v=1765017581","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/landscape-in-concrete-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}