{"product_id":"kingdom-of-twilight-hb-z44","title":"Steven Uhly: KINGDOM OF TWILIGHT Z44 [2017] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH - \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland\u003c\/b\u003e. An S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish Jew, Margarita Ejzenstain. In retaliation, his commander orders the execution of thirty-seven Poles - one for every year of the dead man's life. First hidden by a German couple, Margarita must then flee the brutal advance of the Soviet army with her new-born baby. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins a thrilling panorama of intermingled destinies and events that reverberate from that single act of defiance. \u003cb\u003eKINGDOM OF TWILIGHT \u003c\/b\u003efollows the lives of Jewish refugees and a German family resettled from Bukovina, as well as a former S.S. officer, chronicling the geographical and psychological dislocation generated by war. A quest for identity and truth takes them from Displaced Persons camps to Lubeck, Berlin, Tel Aviv and New York, as they try to make sense of a changed world, and of their place in it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHypnotically lyrical and intensely moving, Steven Uhly's epic novel is a finely nuanced and yet shattering exploration of universal themes: love, hatred, doubt, survival, guilt, humanity and redemption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor readers of HHHH by Laurent Binet, THE KINDLY ONES by Jonathan Littell, THE ZONE OF INTEREST by Martin Amis, and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the German by Jamie Bulloch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Uhly, Steven \u0026 Bulloch, Jamie","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44389894095138,"sku":"9780857054968","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/uhly-steven-bulloch-jamie-kingdom-of-twilight-hb-z44-9780857054968-40472444797218.jpg?v=1675265199","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/kingdom-of-twilight-hb-z44","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}