{"product_id":"9781780878355-trieste","title":"Trieste","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA novel that exposes the abduction of young children during the Second World War, through the extraordinary story of a mother's search for her son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTrieste\u003c\/i\u003e is a monumental feat of the imagination. Impassioned and lucid, it is impossible to read it and not come away with a new understanding of the world. Daša Drndic has given us a masterpiece that is not only brilliant, but uncompromisingly humane. How lucky we are\" MAAZA MENGISTE, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow King\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Although this is fiction, it is also a deeply researched historical documentary . It is a masterpiece\" A.N. Wilson, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Trieste\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of European high culture. Drndic is writing neither to entertain (her novel is splendid and absorbing nevertheless) nor to instruct (its subject, the Holocaust, is too intractable to yield lessons). She is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick\" Craig Seligman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn old woman sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy. She is waiting to be reunited with her son. He was fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her sixty-two years before by the Nazi authorities during the German occupation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy focusing on the experiences of one individual, Drndic engages head-on with the traumatic history of WWII and the Holocaust and deals unsparingly with the massacre of Jews in Trieste's concentration camp. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA literary collage comprising photographs, scraps of poetry, interviews and testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials, it is a formally daring work of immense power and scope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449935442294,"sku":"9781780878355","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26925493.jpg?v=1760446924","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780878355-trieste","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}