{"product_id":"my-century-9781590170656","title":"My Century","description":"In \u003ci\u003eMy Century\u003c\/i\u003e the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, \u003ci\u003eMy Century\u003c\/i\u003e describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation --in which Wat was a major participant-- that followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world. But Wat's book is at heart a story of spiritual struggle and conversion. He tells of his separation during World War II from his wife and young son, of his confinement in the Soviet prison system, of the night when the sound of far-off laughter brought on a vision of \"the devil in history.\" \"It was then,\" Wat writes, \"that I began to be a believer.\"\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 12\/31\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590170656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.12h x 5.36w x 0.99d","brand":"Aleksander Wat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45017756106933,"sku":"9781590170656","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8227d433-42b1-45e5-a0cc-3a77bdd309ba.jpg?v=1736832754","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-century-9781590170656","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}