{"product_id":"9781593760052","title":"Broken Ground: A Novel","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"wherever you may be you are always a stranger and a pilgrim…\"—Thomas a Kempis\u003cp\u003eKaethe Shalk has married into a family of disappearing German aristocracy. Having spent years in East Berlin, devoted, after her fashion, to an American father himself devoted to the grand socialist ideal, she faces a new life of boundless complexity. When the Berlin Wall comes down, the ruin of the East stands bare, in stark contrast to the exuberance of the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaethe’s journey from America to the broken ground of contemporary Germany becomes an act of recovery: of lives intertwined by politics and passion, of memory and the invented self—and of Kaethe’s search for a daughter lost to her, now grown and living in uncompromising isolation from her mother’s past and present somewhere in vast, resurgent Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe art of this novel shines in its prose. Kai Maristed’s Broken Ground tells a layered story of life’s discord and counterpoint, set against a background of ruin and renewal. This is a novel of mesmerizing power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053643383024,"sku":"9781593760052","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593760052_p0.jpg?v=1763813297","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593760052","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}