{"product_id":"an-ordinary-youth-paperback","title":"An Ordinary Youth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalter Kempowski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Lipkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative novel about growing up in Nazi Germany, as seen through the eyes of a child witnessing the spread of intolerance and political unrest in his town.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Ordinary Youth\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother's jazz records, his father's fluctuating moods, and his mother's ministrations and anxieties. While Walter is absorbed by his private life, the extraordinary accumulation of contemporary idioms that accompany his point of view--dialogue, song, literary quotations, commercials, and political slogans--tell a different story. Through this echo chamber of voices, Kempowski shows a hugely turbulent and murderously intolerant nation racing toward disaster. An immediate bestseller when it was first published in Germany in 1971 (as \u003ci\u003eTadeller \u0026amp; Wolff\u003c\/i\u003e) and the best known of Kempowski's novels in Germany, \u003ci\u003eAn Ordinary Youth\u003c\/i\u003e is now available in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Kempowski \u003c\/b\u003e(1929-2007) was one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers. His novels include \u003ci\u003eAll for Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMarrow and Bone\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by NYRB Classics). In the 1980s he began work on an immense project, \u003ci\u003eEcho Soundings\u003c\/i\u003e, which gathered firsthand accounts, diaries, letters, and memoirs of World War II. It is considered a modern classic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Lipkin \u003c\/b\u003eis a translator and scholar of German literature with a focus on realism. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Left Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He is currently a visiting professor of German Studies at Hamilton College.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 476\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764478640416,"sku":"9781681377209","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f4c7004929671471ba78d0c724aa3671.webp?v=1780249527","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/an-ordinary-youth-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}