{"product_id":"dead-herzls-9798217379361","title":"Dead Herzls","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer-prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e, a virtuoso new novel, a haunting epic of decline and fall, about the doomed family of Theodor Herzl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe father of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was a journalist, playwright, and novelist, as well as a figure of immense fame and influence in his own brief lifetime. But he was also the father of three flesh-and-blood children: Pauline, who died from her drug addictions; Hans, who converted to Christianity and committed suicide on the eve of his older sister's funeral; and Trude, the youngest, who perished in a Nazi camp. Only one of these Herzls had a child: Trude's son Stephen, a British Army captain who leapt to his death from a bridge in Atomic Age Washington DC, thus ending the Herzl line—the family coming apart catastrophically even as Herzl's ideas took root in the world and flourished. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead Herzls\u003c\/i\u003e tells this previously nearly unknown saga as a continent-and-century-spanning fiction written with millennial compression, compassion, grace, and somehow even wit. From the salons of imperial Vienna to the debauched cabarets of interwar Paris, from Blitzed-out London to the final days of the British Mandate in Jerusalem, the orphaned Herzl children careen through history, ideology, borders, and languages, their broken lives a shattered mirror full of unexpected reflections for our own time. A classical tragedy and a poignant psychological study of how the familial becomes the political, it is Joshua Cohen’s most important novel to date, and a brilliantly dark prehistory of our violent present.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62232267817347,"sku":"9798217379361","price":27.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9798217379361.jpg?v=1785347715","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/dead-herzls-9798217379361","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}