{"product_id":"random-destinations-l-furst-9781349531455","title":"Random Destinations: Escaping the Holocaust and Starting Life Anew","description":"Random Destinations examines how novels and short stories portray those who managed to escape from Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism. They faced many concrete and psychological problems at their random destinations: language acquisition, adjustment to different moves, fitting into the community, coming to terms with having been rejected by their homeland, the conflict between the desire to remember and\/or forget their past, and, above all, the need to reshape their identities. Their personal struggles are contextualized within their historical situation, both global and specific to their new locale. The book argues that fiction, by taking ordinary escapees' difficulties into account, paradoxically offers a more subtle and true picture than sociological studies, that have tended to foreground the successes of a few outstanding individuals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e L. Furst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1349531456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781349531455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d","brand":"L. Furst","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088068260095,"sku":"9781349531455","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0544255b-3087-492d-af36-fbc0dd2772fa.jpg?v=1769102924","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/random-destinations-l-furst-9781349531455","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}