{"product_id":"9780374525156","title":"Reunion: A Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003eA daring novella about the loss of innocence in pre-war Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReunion \u003c\/i\u003eis  the story of intense and innocent devotion between two young men  growing up in \"the soft, serene, bluish hills of Swabia,\" and the  sinister (but all too mundane) forces that end both their friendship and  their childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 1932. Hans Schwartz is Jewish, the  son of a Stuttgart doctor who asserts that the rise of the Nazis is \"a  temporary illness, something like measles which will pass off as soon as  the economic situation improves.\" The Holocaust would be unthinkable  for these characters, but of course it looms over the story: Hans's  friend, the young Count Konradin von Hohenfels, has a mother who keeps a  portrait of Hitler on her dresser. The two boys share their most  private thoughts and trips to the countryside of southwest Germany,  discuss poetry and the past and present of their country, and argue the  existence of a benevolent God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe eventual disintegration of  this cherished relationship foreshadows the fate of Europe's Jews-- but  Uhlman doesn't end his story with neat polarities. Years later, exiled  in America, Hans comes upon a revelation about von Hohenfels which  provides a stunning denouement and leaves the reader recalling Uhlman's  haunting, lyrical descriptions of the vineyards, opera houses, and dark  forests of Württemberg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hundreds of bulky tomes have now been  written about the age when corpses were melted into soap to keep the  master race clean; yet I sincerely believe that this slim volume will  find its lasting place on the shelves.\"--Arthur Koestler, from the \u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084727255101,"sku":"9780374525156","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374525156_p0.jpg?v=1775242816","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780374525156","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}