{"product_id":"9781590175422","title":"My Century","description":"In \u003ci\u003eMy Century\u003c\/i\u003e the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat  provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst  of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize  winner Czeslaw Milosz, \u003ci\u003eMy Century\u003c\/i\u003e describes the artistic, sexual,  and political experimentation—in which Wat was a major participant—that  followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas  which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the  destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world.  But Wat’s book is at heart a story of spiritual struggle and conversion.  He tells of his separation during World War II from his wife and young son, of his confinement in the Soviet prison  system, of the night when the sound of far-off laughter brought on a  vision of “the devil in history.” “It was then,” Wat writes, “that I  began to be a believer.”","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138078425328,"sku":"9781590175422","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175422_p0.jpg?v=1763809375","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175422","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}