{"product_id":"landscape-in-concrete-jakov-lind-9781934824146","title":"Landscape in Concrete","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It 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?ter Grass, Bertolt Brecht, Louis-Ferdinand C駘ine, Hermann Hesse, Peter Handke, and more. In 1982, PEN American Center created an award for translation in his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jakov Lind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934824143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934824146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.46w x 0.59d","brand":"Jakov Lind","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937561542911,"sku":"9781934824146","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e13f61be-61ac-47af-8a11-4ccef9d6b245.jpg?v=1681430790","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/landscape-in-concrete-jakov-lind-9781934824146","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}