{"product_id":"an-ordinary-youth-9781681377209","title":"An Ordinary Youth","description":"\u003ci\u003eAn Ordinary Youth\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother's jazz records, his father's fluctuating moods, and his mother's ministrations and anxieties. While Walter is absorbed by his private life, the extraordinary accumulation of contemporary idioms that accompany his point of view--dialogue, song, literary quotations, commercials, and political slogans--tell a different story. Through this echo chamber of voices, Kempowski shows a hugely turbulent and murderously intolerant nation racing toward disaster. An immediate bestseller when it was first published in Germany in 1971 (as \u003ci\u003eTadellöser \u0026amp; Wolff\u003c\/i\u003e) and the best known of Kempowski's novels in Germany, \u003ci\u003eAn Ordinary Youth\u003c\/i\u003e is now available in English for the first time.\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 11\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681377209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Walter Kempowski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43132956639413,"sku":"9781681377209","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0311a199-9a9e-43b5-9a0f-986e88cc91c0.jpg?v=1695136488","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/an-ordinary-youth-9781681377209","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}