{"product_id":"bronsteins-children-jurek-becker-9780226041278","title":"Bronstein's Children","description":"\"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 \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\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJurek 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jurek Becker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226041271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226041278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.48w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/16\/1999 pg. 36","brand":"Jurek Becker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946333602047,"sku":"9780226041278","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_760492ae-a1a8-40ce-92a5-ba57a2850f6b.jpg?v=1681512570","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bronsteins-children-jurek-becker-9780226041278","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}