{"product_id":"9780811224697","title":"Captives","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stunning novel set in postwar Romania about language, identity, and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaptives\u003c\/em\u003e, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections–narrated in first-, second-, and third-person voices–\u003cem\u003eCaptives\u003c\/em\u003e explores the lives of several defeated characters as they become almost too much to bear under the weight of endless humiliations: loss of identity, trauma of having survived the Second World War, and submission to the totalitarian state. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a moving account of a country shaken by communism and anti-Semitism and haunted by recent atrocities, from \"a distinguished writer whose vision of totalitarianism is close to Kafka's cloudy menace, universal yet internalized\" (Richard Eder, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129369542896,"sku":"9780811224697","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811224697_p0.jpg?v=1769908996","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811224697","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}