{"product_id":"literature-or-life-jorge-semprun-9780140266245","title":"Literature or Life","description":"Jorge Semprun was twenty years old - already an accomplished philosopher and poet - when arrested by Nazis for activites in the French Resistance. He was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. \u003cb\u003eLiterature or Life\u003c\/b\u003e, a bestseller in France, is a deeply personal account not only of Semprun's time at Buchenwald, but also of the years before and after, of his painful attempts to write this book...created out of obsessions that returned him again and again like themes in a nightmarish rhapsody.His long reverie on life-as-death, now translated with the mesmerizing power of fiction. It is a profound contribution to Holocaust literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e? Semprun was awarded the Jerusalem prize at the 1997 Jerusalem International Book Fair. \u003cbr\u003e? Semprun's first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Voyage\u003c\/i\u003e, won Europe's prestigious Formentor Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jorge Semprun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0140266240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140266245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.77h x 5.06w x 0.61d","brand":"Jorge Semprun","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994744783103,"sku":"9780140266245","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44c83133-0d86-478b-9e3e-c481440197c9.jpg?v=1683331936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literature-or-life-jorge-semprun-9780140266245","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}