{"product_id":"gretel-and-the-great-war","title":"Gretel and the Great War","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Adam Ehrlich Sachs \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Adam Ehrlich Sachs makes books that make their own traditions. This is the highest praise I know, for serious.\" —Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Sachs lends a touch of the fantastical to Viennese life at the end of WWI in this inventive novel . . . [He] keenly captures the pulse of a city on the cusp of immense change. This spirited volume lingers long after the final page.\" —\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lean, seductive, and dazzlingly inventive novel that shows us the dark side of early twentieth-century Vienna.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVienna, 1919. A once-mighty empire has finally come crashing down—and a mysterious young woman, unable to speak, has turned up on the streets. A doctor appeals to the public for information about her past and receives a single response, from a sanatorium patient who claims to be her father. The man reveals only her name: Gretel. But he encloses a bedtime story he asks the doctor to read aloud to her, about an Architect whose radically modern creation has caused a great scandal. The next day a second story arrives, about a Ballet Master who develops a new position of the feet. Twenty-four more stories follow in alphabetical order, about an Immunologist and a Jeweler, a Revolutionary and a Satirist, a Waif and an X-ray Technician and a Zionist. Crossing paths and purposes, their stories interweave until a single picture emerges, that of a decadent, death-obsessed, oversexed empire buzzing with the ideas of Freud and Karl Kraus. There are artists who ape the innocence of children, and scientists who insist that children are anything but innocent . . . And then there’s Gretel’s own mother, who will do whatever it takes to sing onstage at the City Theater. Is it any wonder that this world—soon to vanish anyway in a war to end all wars—was one from which Gretel’s father wished to shelter her?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003eFSG Originals, 2024\u003cbr\u003e5.35 x 0.56 x 8.15 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780374614249\u003cbr\u003eVienna, Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48537846579368,"sku":"9780374614249","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Gretel-and-the-Great-War_Sachs.jpg?v=1718047394","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/gretel-and-the-great-war","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}