{"product_id":"the-german-lesson-0811222012","title":"The German Lesson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0811222012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lenz, Siegfried\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the The Joys of Duty. Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his degenerate work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. I was trying to find out, Lenz says, where the joys of duty could lead a people.Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52178015617312,"sku":"NEW0811222012","price":20.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61anm9ayG4L.jpg?v=1786483657","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-german-lesson-0811222012","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}