{"product_id":"effingers","title":"Effingers","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Gabriele Tergit\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Sophie Duvernoy \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A blend of page-turner and the highest literary quality.\" ―\u003cem\u003eDer Tagesspiegel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Anyone who reads it will accompany the characters for many decades and take some of them very much to their hearts.\" ―\u003cem\u003eBerliner Zeitung\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGabriele Tergit’s\u003cem\u003e Effingers\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel, at once epic and intimate, about the lives and fates of three generations of a German Jewish family. Beginning in 1878 and ending in 1948, we follow the Effingers, a family of modest craftsmen from southern Germany, who are joined through marriage to two families of high-society financiers in Berlin, the Goldschmidts and the Oppners. The Effingers soon rise to prominence as one of the most important German industrialist families in Berlin, but with the outbreak of World War I, they fall on hard times and must navigate the tumultuous changes of the Weimar Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull of parties and drama and delicious gossip, and featuring a kaleidoscopic cast of characters, \u003cem\u003eEffingers\u003c\/em\u003e is a keenly observed account of German Jewish life in all its richness and complexity. Tergit's precise and limpid prose dazzles in Sophie Duvernoy's elegant translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoefully underrated when it first appeared in 1951, and only recently rediscovered in Germany, \u003cem\u003eEffingers\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on identity and nationality that establishes Tergit as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e864 pages\u003cbr\u003eNYRB Classics, 2025\u003cbr\u003e5 x 8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781681379791\u003cbr\u003eLiterature, Fiction \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54482544525480,"sku":"9781681379791","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Effingers_Tergit_Gabriele.jpg?v=1763057585","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/effingers","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}