{"product_id":"survive-9781646053049","title":"Survive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I'm under twenty-five and I am unable to envision the future. I'm not the only one.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurvive\u003c\/i\u003e​ presents a singular voice of the French 'Bataclan Generation'--those most acutely conscious of the terrorist attacks in the mid-2010s--grappling with issues of memory or post-memory, trauma, and survivors' dilemmas.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinkelstein cuts across national and cultural contexts, from French to Argentinian and North American. This novel situates contemporary youth in a violence-saturated present with which they are all too familiar, yet from which many of them feel alienated in a plurality of difficult-to-define ways. Finkelstein touches on the challenge facing her generation: to understand their own lives as uniquely meaningful in the face of unending mass suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e​\u003ci\u003eSurvive\u003c\/i\u003e ​is concerned with the work of grieving for strangers--a grief which does not begin or end, but is rather a structural part of one's being in the world. For Finkelstein, it is essential \"[t]o abide. Deep inside what is dying, in the midst of the bullets going astray and the offenses accumulating, in the midst of the misunderstandings imposed on a face other than my own, on a body other than my own...to build a world that thinks, a world that gives, a world that beats--a living world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646053049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162","brand":"Frederika Amalia Finkelstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44241012981941,"sku":"9781646053049","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c9a7e394-e17e-46ba-8a1a-84542dab7f64.jpg?v=1717470484","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/survive-9781646053049","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}