{"product_id":"9781922229304","title":"The Time Before","description":"Two young men, separated by 60 years of 20th century history and a distance of 17,000 kms, struggle to survive traumatic head injuries, one hovering between life and death in hospital, and the other with severe memory loss at a perilous and confusing time in history.\u003cbr\u003eDieter Rattinger, a young World War One veteran, emerges from his coma into a gradually unfolding nightmare of shattered memory and social turmoil. His supportive best friend becomes increasingly alarmed as Dieter, a pin-up boy for Aryan supremacist propaganda, begins to undergo incomprehensible and alarming psychological changes that make him a danger to himself and unpopular with fellow DAP members in Munich. He is also being stalked by a vengeful young Jew...\u003cbr\u003eIn Sydney in 1980, Mike Hilgard, a happy, charismatic and irrepressible Australian scholar of Germanic history, is plunged into suicidal depression and irrational guilt after a series of family tragedies. Maintaining a vigil at his bedside, his distraught sister and a friend of his dead wife become increasingly drawn to his research projects, but pessimistic about his chances of recovering from an apparent attempt to take his own life...\u003cbr\u003eA final dramatic change takes place in the lives of the two men when an irresistible connection is made between them.","brand":"Zeus Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047890731248,"sku":"9781922229304","price":27.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922229304_p0.jpg?v=1763632679","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922229304","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}