{"product_id":"german-fantasia","title":"German Fantasia","description":"A deserting soldier treks through the torn-up countryside and abandoned villages, trying to distance himself from the atrocities of war.\u003cbr\u003e An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger who whispered another man's name.\u003cbr\u003e A young woman takes up a job in a care home, spending monotonous days scrubbing floors and yearning to dance at the local nightclub.\u003cbr\u003e The artist Franz Marc lives on in an imagined life as a patient at an asylum, before falling victim to Hitler's policy of Gnadentod.\u003cbr\u003e Finally, a young Jewish girl, the life she once knew destroyed, holds her memories close as she finds refuge in wreckage of her homeland.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And throughout there is the shadowy presence of Viktor - one man or many? A looming figure in Germany's own reckoning with its past.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through these five interconnected stories, Philippe Claudel reflects on Germany's complex history and the experiences of its people, dismantling the idea of \"a nation\" or \"a people\" and exploring the malleability of memory.","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46504335180123,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/products\/1_3ed2bc68-d2ff-4750-9a96-ec795c417c95.jpg?v=1681819635","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/german-fantasia","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}