{"product_id":"the-propagandist-9781954404267","title":"The Propagandist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2024 and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Translations of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"C?cile Desprairies's novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Propagandist\u003c\/i\u003e, is full of so many secrets that it's a wonder she managed to write it all.\"\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones. Years later, the silent witness to these sessions has become a prominent historian, and with this chilling autobiographical novel she sets out to unmask enigmatic figures in and around her family. Why, she seeks to understand, did the narrator's relatives zealously collaborate with the Nazi occupiers of France, even remaining for decades afterward obsessive devotees of that evil lost cause?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eC?cile Desprairies\u003c\/strong\u003e is a specialist in Germanic civilization and a historian of the Nazi occupation of France. She is the author of several historical works about the occupation and the Vichy regime. Born in Paris in 1957, \u003cem\u003eThe Propagandist \u003c\/em\u003eis her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNatasha Lehrer\u003c\/strong\u003e has translated books by Georges Bataille, Robert Desnos, Victor Segalen, Chantal Thomas and the Dalai Lama. Her co-translation of Nathalie L?ger's \u003cem\u003eSuite for Barbara Loden \u003c\/em\u003ewon the 2017 Scott Moncrieff Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Vessel Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874741195026,"sku":"9781954404267","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_968d1c64-c265-4fc4-85da-13d3adb7e485.jpg?v=1738005875","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-propagandist-9781954404267","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}