{"product_id":"seven-dirty-days-9798985756432","title":"Seven Dirty Days","description":"\u003cb\u003eSpanning a century of European history and locales including Budapest, Berlin, Paris, and Moscow, \u003ci\u003eSeven Dirty Days\u003c\/i\u003e follows the fate of a mysterious photograph that reveals--in seven sordid chapters--shocking accounts of the treatment of women and the treatment of Jews.\u003c\/b\u003e A filmmaker's powerfully cinematic narrative, it also gives voice to women in control of their fates, and, throughout, gives us glimmers of hope for a better future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith relentless narrative force punctuated by an exhilarating comic touch, Péter Gárdos weaves a story as absorbing, suspenseful, and inventive as it is sweeping in the century of Central and Eastern European history it covers; a story that takes the reader in stunningly credible detail from pre-World War I Budapest and Berlin to 1930s Moscow and Paris, post-World War II provincial Kazakhstan; and then back again to Budapest, first in the communist era and, finally, in the twenty-first century, where, on board an international express train en route to Munich, no less, things come full circle in a scene that comes within a hair's breadth of murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis story of social conflict, political upheaval, oppressor\/oppressed (e.g., man\/woman, fascist\/Jew), betrayal, and so much more is rendered with great sensitivity even amid its unsettling depictions of sexual depravity and sexual violence. Its transnational reckoning with a century of history is as powerful as any that has come out of Europe in recent years; the almost playful prose brings a story that in another writer's hands might simply be depressing fully to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Europe Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798985756432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272","brand":"Peter G?rdos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44391944847541,"sku":"9798985756432","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e5f53b65-d757-47c2-9ee2-7887d8036b91.jpg?v=1719949365","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/seven-dirty-days-9798985756432","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}