{"product_id":"vienna","title":"Vienna","description":"From the very beginning - the birth of the narrator's father in the middle of\u003cbr\u003ea bridge party - the reader is plunged headlong into the world of Vienna, a\u003cbr\u003enovel crowded with voices, characters, tragedy and joy. \u003cbr\u003eThe disintegration of history and indentity in the twentieth century is seen\u003cbr\u003ethrough the adventures of one family - half-Jewish Viennese, split apart by\u003cbr\u003ethe Nazi invasion and sent out into the world. Dispensing with linear\u003cbr\u003enarrative, the story loops forwards and back to follow each member on\u003cbr\u003etheir winding course. Their experiences encompass fraudsters,\u003cbr\u003efootballers, fools and fur coats as the narrative moves from Austria to\u003cbr\u003eLondon, from Canada to the battlefields of Burma. \u003cbr\u003eThis is a landmark European novel of impressive reach and power whose\u003cbr\u003ereadership will spread as widely as the family whose story it tells. It\u003cbr\u003eintroduces in Eva Menasse an intimate chronicle of human experience\u003cbr\u003eand an unashamedly gleeful storyteller. Her cast of entrancing characters\u003cbr\u003eand unexpected events shows us imperceptibly the formation and\u003cbr\u003edisintegration of family history and identity.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44790969827507,"sku":"9780753821718","price":416.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478093479780753821718.jpg?v=1762849411","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/vienna","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}