{"product_id":"children-of-the-dead","title":"Children of the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek--a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek's novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, an enormous, spectral kaleidoscope erected before the unfathomable.\"--Dustin Illingworth, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria's scenic landscape among historic churches and castles. It is a vacation idyll that attracts tourists from all over Europe. It is also a mass burial site. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Amid the snow-topped peaks and panoramic vistas, ghosts haunt the forest: Edgar Gstranz, a young skier who died in a car crash; Gudrun Bichler, a philosophy student who committed suicide in her bathtub; and Karin Frenzel, a widow who (perhaps) died in a bus accident. As the three slip in and out of the hotel, engaging unsuspecting tourists and seeking a way to return to life, the soil begins to crack under their feet as the dead of the Holocaust awaken: zombies determined to exact their revenge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Scrupulously rendered for the first time in English by Gitta Honegger, \u003ci\u003eThe Children of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a mind-bending ride through time, space, and memory. Concocted from experimental theater, splatter film, Gothic literature, philosophy, religion, and more, Jelinek's phantasmagorical masterwork is a fierce confrontation with our fraught legacies in the name of the innocent dead.","brand":"Gitta Honegger, Elfriede Jelinek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46478482833644,"sku":"9780300281941","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780300281941.jpg?v=1748094845","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/children-of-the-dead","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}