{"product_id":"9781782278467-clouds-over-paris-the-wartime-notebooks-of-felix-hartlaub","title":"Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Delicately drawn, inventive and unmistakably Parisian' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe writer Felix Hartlaub died in obscurity at just 31, vanishing from Berlin in 1945. He left behind a small oeuvre of private writings from the Second World War: fragments and observations of life from the midst of catastrophe that, with their evocative power and precision, would make a permanent place for him in German letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePosted to Paris in 1940 to conduct archival research, Hartlaub recorded his impressions of the unfamiliar city in notebooks that document with unparalleled immediacy the daily realities of occupation. With a painter's eye for detail, Hartlaub writes of the bustle of civilians and soldiers in cafés, of half-seen trysts during blackout hours and the sublime light of Paris in spring. \u003ci\u003eClouds Over Paris\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique testament to the persistence of ordinary life through disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40935511523425,"sku":"9781782278467","price":8.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41161814_60ce6b85-39ef-4cdb-b3e7-cebecbf70f77.jpg?v=1778128425","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781782278467-clouds-over-paris-the-wartime-notebooks-of-felix-hartlaub","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}