{"product_id":"cesare-a-novel-of-war-torn-berlin-9781942658504","title":"Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words. . . .  \u003ci\u003eCesare\u003c\/i\u003e is] provocative, stimulating and deeply satisfying.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, German military intelligence. Canaris adopts the young man and dubs him \"Cesare\" after the character in the silent film \u003ci\u003eThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\u003c\/i\u003e for his ability to break through any barrier as he eliminates the Abwehr's enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanaris is a man of contradictions who, while serving the regime, seeks to undermine the Nazis and helps Cesare hide Berlin's Jews from the Gestapo. But the Nazis will lure many to Theresienstadt, a phony paradise in Czechoslovakia with sham restaurants, novelty shops, and bakeries, a cruel ghetto and way station to Auschwitz. When the woman Cesare loves, a member of the Jewish underground, is captured and sent there, Cesare must find a way to rescue her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCesare\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary thriller and a love story born of the horrors of a country whose culture has died, whose history has been warped, and whose soul has disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction. Among other honors, he has received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and his novels have been selected as finalists for the Firecracker Award and PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942658504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2019 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2019 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jerome Charyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671742705820,"sku":"9781942658504","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_dbcf1713-c9c2-48d3-828f-e9ef1714d783.jpg?v=1603926146","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cesare-a-novel-of-war-torn-berlin-9781942658504","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}