{"product_id":"liberation","title":"Sandor Marai: Liberation [2022] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSandor Marai, one of Europe's outstanding novelists, creates a masterful and intensely moving account of the siege of Budapest; an atrocity witnessed by the author first-hand, that we see now through the eyes of a young woman. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the winter of 1944-5. The Germans, determined to impose their Final Solution, have occupied Hungary. The Russians surround the capital and a violent offensive between warring armies begins. As bombs fall from both sides, the remaining inhabitants, entrapped by violence, retreat to the depths of the city for refuge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong them is Elisabeth who hides along with many others in the confines of a huge cellar, hoping for her own safety and that of her father, a scientist who is a particular target of the fascist Arrow Cross assassins. She bears witness to the violent, moral disintegration of civilization that tests even the most compassionate and courageous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually, the door of the cellar is opened, but what will be her liberation?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marai, Sandor \u0026 Rix, Len","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46531758031187,"sku":"9781914495427","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/marai-sandor-rix-len-sandor-marai-liberation-2022-hardback-9781914495427-58540809650515.jpg?v=1726680724","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/liberation","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}