{"product_id":"the-shimmer-of-the-assistant-hermann-stehr-9780473242497","title":"The Shimmer of the Assistant and Other Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"We all do not know how often we have been driven into that strange state, and perhaps it is really an everlasting trick of scared, weak souls to escape responsibility by such a confusion of their inner existence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour short stories mainly set in late nineteenth century Silesia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Shimmer of the Assistant: a surreal story about a clerk who fails to get a pay-rise.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Last Act: a banker's past deeds come back to haunt him over an evening in a tavern.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Grandmother: a grandmother with a reputation for saving dying people tries to save her grandson in the face of her son-in-law's obstruction.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Spirit of the Father: an explorer in the Orient receives a visitation from his dying father.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eHermann Stehr (1864-1940) was a Silesian author of over thirty novels and novellas. He was awarded the Bauernfeld Prize (1910), the Fastenrath Prize (1919), the Schiller Prize (1919), the Rathenau Prize (1930), the Wartburg Rose (1932), the Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1932) and the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt-am-Main (1933), and appointed as a founding member of the Prussian Literary Academy (1926).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"His people talk with their hearts and breathe with their souls; whoever listens to them, hears sounds meant for the ears of God.\" - Walther Rathenau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hermann Stehr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0473242494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780473242497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e K a Nitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Hermann Stehr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435416629503,"sku":"9780473242497","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_80d138c2-7c3e-4ce8-a909-6c96e9fee492.jpg?v=1777150243","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-shimmer-of-the-assistant-hermann-stehr-9780473242497","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}