{"product_id":"9781844082216","title":"The Spectacle Salesman's Family","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Schiefer is a travelling spectacles salesman. Every Monday morning he leaves Hamburg on a week-long sales trip. His wife, his mother-in-law and his two teenage daughters Fania and Vera see him off with abundant hugs and kisses, and they welcome him back with equal exuberance on Friday evening - just in time for Sabbath eve. While her husband is away, Alma Schiefer defends the wellbeing of her family with an explosive mixture of ferocious love and extreme determination. Thirteen-year-old Fania is torn between the comfort of home and the fearful thrills of the unknown outside world, a sixties world that contains student protest, beehive hairdos, Israel and the Six Day War, politics, religion, revolution and . . . the promise of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSensual, funny and acerbic, The Spectacle Salesman's Family is a brilliant, vivid portrait of Jewish life in post-Holocaust Germany that continues the Jewish tradition of memorialising, recounting the details in order to hold onto the past and its lessons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032730648816,"sku":"9781844082216","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844082216_p0.jpg?v=1763743687","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844082216","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}