{"product_id":"charlotte-salomon-paints-her-life-9781960573919","title":"Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Salomon Paints Her Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds. As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler's rise to power in 1938, Charlotte's first place prize is denied because she is a Jew, her enrollment annulled. After Kristallnacht, she is sent from Berlin into exile with her grandparents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Charlotte's grandmother leaps to her death, her Old World grandfather shocks her with the family secret, a legacy of female suicides. She struggles against her grandfather's insistence that suicide, not art, is her destiny too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunted by the encroaching terror of the Third Reich and the threat of psychological disintegration, Charlotte clings to her determination to become a serious modernist painter, to complete her monumental work \"Life? Or Theater?\" and get it into safekeeping in a race against time before capture by the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sibylline Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781960573919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2025 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pamela Reitman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45111924293813,"sku":"9781960573919","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_39e5ab57-1d2e-4582-a406-cf2c7627cfbe.jpg?v=1739887593","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/charlotte-salomon-paints-her-life-9781960573919","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}