{"product_id":"war-and-war","title":"War and War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar and War\u003c\/i\u003e begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed by thuggish teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKorim is determined to do away with himself, but before he commits suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all out onto the world wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his move far uptown with a mad interpreter), \u003ci\u003eWar and War\u003c\/i\u003e relates his encounters with a fascinating range of people in a world torn between viciousness and mysterious beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the eight chapters of \u003ci\u003eWar and Wa\u003c\/i\u003er is a short 'prequel acting as a sequel', 'Isaiah', which brings us to a dark bar, years before in Hungary, where Korim rants against the world and threatens suicide. Written like nothing else (turning single sentences into chapters), \u003ci\u003eWar and War\u003c\/i\u003e affirms W. G. Sebald's comment that Krasznahorkai's prose far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791181148339,"sku":"9781781256237","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478119979781781256237.jpg?v=1762853243","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/war-and-war","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}