{"product_id":"dead-herzls-joshua-cohen-9798217379361","title":"Dead Herzls","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer-prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e, a virtuoso new novel, a haunting epic of decline and fall, about the doomed family of Theodor Herzl\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe father of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was a journalist, playwright, and novelist, as well as a figure of immense fame and influence in his own brief lifetime. But he was also the father of three flesh-and-blood children: Pauline, who died from her drug addictions; Hans, who converted to Christianity and committed suicide on the eve of his older sister's funeral; and Trude, the youngest, who perished in a Nazi camp. Only one of these Herzls had a child: Trude's son Stephen, a British Army captain who leapt to his death from a bridge in Atomic Age Washington DC, thus ending the Herzl line--the family coming apart catastrophically even as Herzl's ideas took root in the world and flourished. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead Herzls\u003c\/i\u003e tells this previously nearly unknown saga as a continent-and-century-spanning fiction written with millennial compression, compassion, grace, and somehow even wit. From the salons of imperial Vienna to the debauched cabarets of interwar Paris, from Blitzed-out London to the final days of the British Mandate in Jerusalem, the orphaned Herzl children careen through history, ideology, borders, and languages, their broken lives a shattered mirror full of unexpected reflections for our own time. A classical tragedy and a poignant psychological study of how the familial becomes the political, it is Joshua Cohen's most important novel to date, and a brilliantly dark prehistory of our violent present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798217379361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d","brand":"Joshua Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852940095743,"sku":"9798217379361","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dead-herzls-joshua-cohen-9798217379361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}