{"product_id":"in-a-hotel-garden-9780811212915","title":"In a Hotel Garden","description":"\u003cem\u003eIn a Hotel Garden\u003c\/em\u003e is a provocative work by the English novelist once described by Sir Frank Kermode as \"an admirable and rare example of the writer-critic.\" It is a captivating novella, written almost entirely in dialogue. \u003cem\u003eIn a Hotel Garden\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds character and meaning with a lovely, meditative tension. The narrator Ben relates to his friends his enthralling encounter with a Jewish woman in the Dolomite Alps. The tale of her compulsive visit to a hotel garden in Siena--where her grandmother fell in love with a man soon to be a victim of the Holocaust--illuminates Ben's half-lived life, and raises the question of how we can ever come to terms with the destruction of the European Jews in our century. \u003cem\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/em\u003e in England (where this novel first appeared) said, \"Its [the novel's] enigmas are those of life itself, and Josipovici sets them before us with clarity, tact and compassion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811212915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.92h x 5.20w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/27\/1995 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1995 pg. 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1994 pg. 412\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gabriel Josipovici","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774090834101,"sku":"9780811212915","price":8.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/in-a-hotel-garden-9780811212915","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}