{"product_id":"the-colonels-wife-9781644450086","title":"The Colonel's Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who \"conjures beauty from the ugliest of things\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in \u003ci\u003eThe Colonel's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, \u003ci\u003eThe Colonel's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019 pg. 79\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rosa Liksom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44145768530101,"sku":"9781644450086","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_dddb8216-5ff7-4ee5-9531-230c2e6f0dce.jpg?v=1715697596","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-colonels-wife-9781644450086","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}