{"product_id":"9781906497781","title":"History Thieves","description":"\u003cp\u003eComing from a thoroughly secular Soviet background, the Russian-British novelist Zinovy Zinik became aware for the first time of his “Jewishness” when he emigrated to Israel in the 1970s. In this stylistically innovative autobiographical tale\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eZinik describes how an \u003ci\u003eunheimliche\u003c\/i\u003e experience in Berlin—of seeing for real the house he dreamed about many years before in London–led him to investigate the chequered and enigmatic past of his Russian-born grandfather, who, while ostensibly practicing as a doctor in Lithuania, was building the Soviet empire from which Zinik tried to escape 50 years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the manner of the classic detective story, Zinik’s meditation on “assumed identity” and “plagiarized past” culminates in the notion of recognition as a redeeming factor, suggesting that it is not only central to the twentieth-century Jewish experience or even the wider world of émigrés, exiles and migrants of all kinds, but to the human condition itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060858077424,"sku":"9781906497781","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906497781_p0.jpg?v=1763616539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906497781","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}