{"product_id":"youth-a-novel-german-literature-1628970502","title":"Youth: A Novel (German Literature)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1628970502\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Koeppen, Wolfgang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy years: a radical, not to say terrifying, stylist; a caustic, jet-black comedian; a bitter prophet. His late, autobiographical work--the short, intense autofiction, Youth, translated here for the first time--is a portrait of the little north German town of Greifswald before World War I, and is a miracle of compression: this is not historical fiction, but a kind of personal apocalypse. Also included here, in Michael Hofmann's brilliant translation, is one of Koeppen's very last works: a short, fragmentary text spoken over a 1990 German television program depicting his return visit to the town of his schooldays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52178062704928,"sku":"NEW1628970502","price":17.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/51DgdzmT2JL.jpg?v=1786485038","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/youth-a-novel-german-literature-1628970502","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}