{"product_id":"abel-and-cain-9781681373256","title":"Abel and Cain","description":"\u003cb\u003eAppearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant volume\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Death of My Brother Abel\u003c\/i\u003e and its delirious sequel, \u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e, constitute the magnum opus of Gregor von Rezzori's prodigious career, the most ambitious, extravagant, outrageous, and deeply considered achievement of this wildly original and never less than provocative master of the novel. In \u003ci\u003eAbel and Cain\u003c\/i\u003e, the original book, long out of print, is reissued in a fully revised translation; \u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e appears for the first time in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Death of My Brother Abel \u003c\/i\u003ezigzags across the middle of the twentieth century, from the 1918 to 1968, taking in the Jazz Age, the Anschluss, the Nuremberg trials, and postwar commercialism. At the center of the book is the unnamed narrator, holed up in a Paris hotel and writing a kind of novel, a collage of sardonic and passionate set pieces about love and work, sex and writing, families and nations, and human treachery and cruelty. In \u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e, that narrator is revealed as Aristide Subics, or so at least it appears, since Subics' identity is as unstable as the fictional apparatus that contains him and the times he lived through. Questions abound: How can a man who lived in a time of lies know himself? And is it even possible to tell the story of an era of lies truthfully? Primarily set in the bombed-out, rubble- strewn Hamburg of the years just after the war, the dark confusion and deadly confrontation and of Cain and Abel, inseparable brothers, goes on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681373256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/18\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gregor Von Rezzori","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935663001781,"sku":"9781681373256","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_baeb9401-ea41-4da6-a845-ab8b2c183d5d.jpg?v=1688491573","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/abel-and-cain-9781681373256","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}