{"product_id":"the-assault-9780394744209","title":"The Assault","description":"It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by burning down the home of an innocent family; only twelve-year-old Anton survives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on actual events, \u003ci\u003eThe Assault\u003c\/i\u003e traces the complex repercussions of this horrific incident on Anton's life. Determined to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existence: a prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with others who were involved in the assassination and its aftermath, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1945--and why.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in 1927 to a Jewish mother whose family died in the concentration camps and an Austrian father who was jailed after the war for collaborating with the Nazis, \u003cb\u003eHARRY MULISCH\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Holland's most acclaimed writers. He is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, nonfiction, commentary, plays, and poetry, many of them having as their subject the Second World War. \u003ci\u003eThe Assault \u003c\/i\u003ehas been translated into more than two dozen languages and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1986. Mulisch died in 2010.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613201961234,"sku":"9780394744209","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2902fbb4-4953-45f5-ac8a-54b0c4d0546a.jpg?v=1732390412","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-assault-9780394744209","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}