{"product_id":"9780877457961","title":"No Such Country: Essays Toward Home","description":"When a German born writer spends almost a third of his life in the U.S., where he writes award-winning essays in English and learns of his homeland's reunification, it is understandable that home will be a recurring topic of his writings. In \u003ci\u003eNo Such Country: Essays toward Home\u003c\/i\u003e, Elmar Leuth offers a series of autobiographical essays in which the idea of home is constantly shifting, both geographically and psychologically.\u003cp\u003eThe early essays position Lueth between Germany and America, exploring his family's century-old beer distributorship in Hamburg and recounting his first extended stay in the U.S. as a 19-year old farmhand with a first glimpse of the adult choices that await him. Later essays add a third cultural dimension to the mix: the former East Germany. On Christmas day 1989, Lueth and his father take a ten-minute ferry ride across the former border to a place neither of them ever expected to enter.  Lueth also chronicles his 17 months as a U.S. government employee in eastern Berlin and his tour of the former State Security Police headquarters there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe closing essay introduces one more layer of the narrator's cross-cultural journey; his marriage to an American woman, an act that embraces and perpetuates his position between cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033438765296,"sku":"9780877457961","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780877457961_p0.jpg?v=1763838302","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780877457961","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}