{"product_id":"effingers-9781681379791","title":"Effingers","description":"\u003cb\u003eThree generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGabriele Tergit's \u003ci\u003eEffingers \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel both epic and intimate as it chronicles the lives and fates of three generations of a German Jewish family. Beginning from 1878--the year after the narrative of \u003ci\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/i\u003e ends--and ending in 1948, we follow the Effingers, a family of modest craftsmen from southern Germany, who are joined through marriage to two families of high-society financiers in Berlin, the Goldschmidts and the Oppners. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Effingers soon rise to prominence as one of the most important German industrialist families in Berlin, but with the outbreak of World War I, they fall on hard times, and must then navigate the tumultuous changes of the Weimar Republic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of parties and drama and the most delicious gossip, and featuring a kaleidoscopic cast of unforgettable characters, \u003ci\u003eEffingers\u003c\/i\u003e is a vibrant and keenly observed account of German Jewish life in all its richness and complexity. Tergit's journalistic precision and limpid prose dazzle in Sophie Duvernoy's elegant, fluid translation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCriminally underrated when it first came out in 1951, and only in recent years undergoing rediscovery, \u003ci\u003eEffingers\u003c\/i\u003e is a searching meditation on identity and nationality that establishes Tergit as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century.\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\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681379791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Gabriele Tergit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51730212552885,"sku":"9781681379791","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b1dd225f-95bc-4b3e-b8d9-389e6300b8db.jpg?v=1758004560","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/effingers-9781681379791","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}