{"product_id":"9781567923919","title":"Badenheim 1939","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is the spring of 1939.  In months Europe will be Hitler's, and Badenheim, a resort town vaguely in the orbit of Vienna, is preparing for its annual summer season.  Soon the vacationers arrive, as they always have, a sample of Jewish middle-class life.  The story unfolds as a matter-of-factly as a Chekhov play, its characters so deeply held by their defensive trivia that they manage to misconstrue every signal of their fate, until these signals take on the lineaments of disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The writing flows seamlessly...a small masterpiece.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIrving Howe, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"As real as Kafka's unnamed Prague...imbued with a Watteau-like melancholy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGabriel Annan, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Magical...gliding from a kind of romantic realism into universal allegory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePeter Prescott, NEWSWEEK\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The sorcery of \u003ci\u003eBadenheim 1939\u003c\/i\u003e [lies in] the success with which the author has concocted a drab narrative involving rather ordinary characters and made their experienced profoundly symbolic yet never hollow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChristopher Lehmann-Haupt, NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"Godine, David R. Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030777872624,"sku":"9781567923919","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781567923919_p0.jpg?v=1763791121","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781567923919","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}