{"product_id":"the-new-internationals-9780802166524","title":"The New Internationals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in shambles and an unraveled social fabric. Alongside the wary and war-weary population, American GIs and young people from France's colonies also pack the city. Cecile Rosenbaum, from a bourgeois Jewish family that has lost everything, meets Minette Traoré, a feisty, French-born girl of Senegalese descent, on the bus to a Communist Youth Conference. There, she also meets Sebastien Danxomè, an aspiring architecture student from West Africa, and romance blooms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack in Paris, as these young internationals haunt the cafés and jazz clubs of the Latin Quarter, Cecile and Sebastien find their budding love muddied by confused loyalties and unyielding cultural traditions. When Mack Gray, a charming African-American GI, sets his sights on Cecile, her complicated relationship with Sebastien, as well as her fierce dedication to her newfound political ideologies, are pushed to the brink.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNuanced, powerful, and sharply realized, \u003ci\u003eThe New Internationals\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the post-war awakening and the young women and men who rose up - and came together - in the beginnings of a vibrant political moment, trying to imagine a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Wright Faladé\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at the University of Illinois. He is the author of the novel\u003ci\u003e Black Cloud Rising\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of the young adult novel \u003ci\u003eAway Running\u003c\/i\u003e and the nonfiction book\u003ci\u003e Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. The recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston\/Richard Wright Award, he has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice, Southern Review, Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51860215431442,"sku":"9780802166524","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_46cc9b5c-0741-4be5-92a3-e8bd60a9faf0.jpg?v=1767779501","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-new-internationals-9780802166524","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}