{"product_id":"gretel-and-the-great-war","title":"Gretel and the Great War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e's most anticipated books of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGretel and the Great War\u003c\/i\u003e is the gift that keeps on giving. Adam Ehrlich Sachs continues to prove he is one of our most daring and original writers.\" --Camille Bordas, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Behave in a Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lean, seductive, and dazzlingly inventive novel that shows us the dark side of early twentieth-century Vienna.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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?\r","brand":"Adam Ehrlich Sachs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44462178238700,"sku":"9780374614249","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780374614249.jpg?v=1709490800","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/gretel-and-the-great-war","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}