{"product_id":"ellis-island-georges-perec-9780811229548","title":"Ellis Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorges Perec, employing lyrical prose meditations, lists, and inventories, conjures up the sixteen million people who, between 1890 to 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet, and his mother perished in Auschwitz) is wide-awake to the elements of chance in immigration and survival: \"To me Ellis Island is the ultimate place of exile. That is, the place where place is absent, the non-place, the nowhere. Ellis Island belongs to all those whom intolerance and poverty have driven and still drive from the land where they grew up.\" \u003cem\u003eEllis Island\u003c\/em\u003e is a slender Perec masterwork, unique among his many singular works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed poet and scholar Mica de la Torre contributes an afterword that keeps Perec's writing front and center while situating \u003cem\u003eEllis Island\u003c\/em\u003e in the context of America's current fierce battles over immigration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Georges Perec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811229548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811229548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 5.10w x 0.20d","brand":"Georges Perec","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048030335231,"sku":"9780811229548","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a03afcee-24f6-439c-881d-0b2f8f543881.jpg?v=1684993490","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ellis-island-georges-perec-9780811229548","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}