{"product_id":"reunion","title":"Reunion","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Fred Uhlman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA deceptively simple, emotionally powerful novella about a passionate friendship between two teenage boys that begins in Germany in 1932—under the shadow of Hitler's rise—and reverberates across the decades. A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe romantic forested landscape of southwestern Germany in 1932 is the setting for the birth of a friendship that will haunt sixteen-year-old Hans Schwarz for the rest of his life. Hans is Jewish, the son of a middle-class doctor who is confident that the rise of the Nazis is only \"a temporary illness\" afflicting his beloved country.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHans's newest classmate, Count Konradin von Hohenfels, is a dazzling young aristocrat whose glamorous mother keeps a portrait of Hitler on her dresser. Hans is immediately drawn to Konradin, and thrilled when a close bond forms between the two boys, forged by common interests that set them apart from their classmates. But their loyalties are soon tested in ways they could not have imagined.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThree decades later, from the vantage point of New York City, Hans once again confronts this life-shaping episode from his childhood, through a stunning revelation that he stumbles upon by chance. In its story of simple friendship undone by not-so-simple times, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReunion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e combines the explosive compression of a fable with the emotional depth of an epic novel many times its length.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardcover \u003cbr\u003e120 pages \u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library, 2022\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1971\u003cbr\u003e5.2 x 0.48 x 8.33 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780593535622\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42909672472744,"sku":"9780593535622","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Reunion_FredUlhman.jpg?v=1668707394","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/reunion","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}