{"product_id":"rebellion-9780312263836","title":"Rebellion","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillusion, the limits of faith, and \"personal fate as governed by the blind, casual workings of a machine controlled by no one and for which no one is responsible\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Andreas Pum returns from World War I, he has lost a leg but gained a medal. But unlike his fellow sufferers, Pum maintains his unswerving faith in God, Government, and Authority. Ironically, after a dispute, Pum is imprisoned as a rebel, and all that he believed in is now thrown into upheaval. Moving along at a breakneck clip, \u003ci\u003eRebellion\u003c\/i\u003e captures the cynicism and upheavals of a postwar society. Its jazz-like cadences mix with social commentary to create a wise parable about justice and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Roth\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Galicia in 1894. He worked as a journalist in Vienna and Berlin until Hitler's rise to power. In 1933, he fled to Paris, where he joined a growing community of exiled intellectuals. He died there in 1939. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost translators of works from German to English. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460115173650,"sku":"9780312263836","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_370527f8-5bfd-4477-b6e8-ab47697db1ba.jpg?v=1730028184","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rebellion-9780312263836","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}