{"product_id":"bad-words-ilse-aichinger-9781803090467","title":"Bad Words: Selected Short Prose","description":"\u003cb\u003eA moving work of fiction from one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last \u003ci\u003eKindertransporte\u003c\/i\u003e to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered. Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger's writing, which since her first and only novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Greater Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published \u003ci\u003eBad Words\u003c\/i\u003e in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original \u003ci\u003eBad Words\u003c\/i\u003e in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger's other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ilse Aichinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803090464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803090467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Ilse Aichinger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073299935487,"sku":"9781803090467","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef78569b-3d59-4573-bc4f-4880c879b0dd.jpg?v=1685447014","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bad-words-ilse-aichinger-9781803090467","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}