{"product_id":"9781590179215","title":"The Book of Blam","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Blam\u003c\/i\u003e, Aleksandar Tišma’s “extended kaddish . . .  [his] masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews), is a modern-day retelling of the  book of Job. The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew  Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Grün, the hunchbacked  watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob Mentele, a  stove fitter; and Arthur Spitzer, a grocer, who played amateur soccer  and had non-Jewish friends; and Sándor Vértes, a lawyer who was a  Communist. All dead. As are his younger sister and his best friend, a  Serb, both of whom joined the resistance movement; and his mother and  father in the infamous Novi Sad raid in January 1942—when the Hungarian  Arrow Cross executed 1,400 Jews and Serbs on the banks of the Danube and  tossed them into the river.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlam lives. The war he survived will never be over for him.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183589703920,"sku":"9781590179215","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590179215_p0.jpg?v=1763808817","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590179215","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}