{"product_id":"9781590177334","title":"The Use of Man","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Use of Man \u003c\/i\u003estarts with an unexpected discovery. World War II  is ending. Sredoje Lazukić has been fighting all through it. Now, as one  of the victorious Partisans, he has come home to Novi Sad. He visits  the house he grew up in. Strangers nervously show him around. He looks  up the mother of Milinko, his best friend. Milinko’s girlfriend, Vera,  was the daughter of a Jew, a bookish businessman. Her house stands empty  and open. Venturing in, Sredoje is surprised to find the diary of the  German tutor that Milinko, Vera, and he all shared, Fräulein, who died  on the operating table just before the war. Here, however, in a cheap  notebook in Vera’s old room, is a record of Fräulein’s lonely days, with  the sentimental caption \u003ci\u003ePoésie\u003c\/i\u003e. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe diary survived.  Sredoje survived. Vera and Milinko have survived too. But what  survives? A few years back Sredoje, Vera, and Milinko were teenagers,  struggling to make sense of life. Life, they now know, can be more  bitter than death. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of stark poetry and illimitable sadness, \u003ci\u003eThe Use of Man\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great books of the 20th century.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157159559408,"sku":"9781590177334","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177334_p0.jpg?v=1763802790","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177334","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}