{"product_id":"kingdom-of-twilight-german-pb-z49","title":"Steven Uhly: KINGDOM OF TWILIGHT (GERMAN) Z49 [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH - \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland\u003c\/b\u003e. An S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish Jew, Margarita Ejzenstain. In retaliation, his commander orders the execution of thirty-seven Poles - one for every year of the dead man's life. First hidden by a German couple, Margarita must then flee the brutal advance of the Soviet army with her new-born baby. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins a thrilling panorama of intermingled destinies and events that reverberate from that single act of defiance. \u003cb\u003eKINGDOM OF TWILIGHT \u003c\/b\u003efollows the lives of Jewish refugees and a German family resettled from Bukovina, as well as a former S.S. officer, chronicling the geographical and psychological dislocation generated by war. A quest for identity and truth takes them from Displaced Persons camps to Lubeck, Berlin, Tel Aviv and New York, as they try to make sense of a changed world, and of their place in it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHypnotically lyrical and intensely moving, Steven Uhly's epic novel is a finely nuanced and yet shattering exploration of universal themes: love, hatred, doubt, survival, guilt, humanity and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of HHHH by Laurent Binet, THE KINDLY ONES by Jonathan Littell, THE ZONE OF INTEREST by Martin Amis, and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the German by Jamie Bulloch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Uhly, Steven \u0026 Bulloch, Jamie","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44389893800226,"sku":"9780857056467","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/uhly-steven-bulloch-jamie-kingdom-of-twilight-german-pb-z49-9780857056467-40472449417506.jpg?v=1675265378","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/kingdom-of-twilight-german-pb-z49","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}