{"product_id":"the-children-of-the-dead-9780300142150","title":"The Children of the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek--a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria's scenic landscape among historic churches and castles. It is a vacation idyll that attracts tourists from all over Europe. It is also a mass burial site. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Amid the snow-topped peaks and panoramic vistas, ghosts haunt the forest: Edgar Gstranz, a young skier who died in a car crash; Gudrun Bichler, a philosophy student who committed suicide in her bathtub; and Karin Frenzel, a widow who (perhaps) died in a bus accident. As the three slip in and out of the hotel, engaging unsuspecting tourists and seeking a way to return to life, the soil begins to crack under their feet as the dead of the Holocaust awaken: zombies determined to exact their revenge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Scrupulously rendered for the first time in English by Gitta Honegger, \u003ci\u003eThe Children of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a mind-bending ride through time, space, and memory. Concocted from experimental theater, splatter film, Gothic literature, philosophy, religion, and more, Jelinek's phantasmagorical masterwork is a fierce confrontation with our fraught legacies in the name of the innocent dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300142150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.00d","brand":"Elfriede Jelinek","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43505719443637,"sku":"9780300142150","price":27.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9a177a94-ede6-4bef-aa4c-45d667caacee.jpg?v=1705423328","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-children-of-the-dead-9780300142150","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}