{"product_id":"anniversaries-volume-2-from-a-year-in-the-life-of-gesine-cresspahl-april-1968-august-1968-9781681375571","title":"Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e critics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnniversaries, Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e begins on April 20, 1968. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, even as the news of the Prague Spring has awakened Gesine's long-dashed hopes that socialism could be a humanism. Meanwhile, her boss at the bank has his own ideas about Czechoslovakia, and Gesine faces the prospect of having to move there for work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContinuing the story of her past from \u003ci\u003eAnniversaries, Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e, Gesine describes the Soviet occupation of her hometown, Jerichow, where her father was installed as mayor and ended up in a brutal prison camp. Gesine herself charts a rebellious course through school, ever more bitterly conscious of the moral ugliness of life behind the Iron Curtain. As the year of the novel comes to its end, past and present converge and the novel circles back to its beginnings: Gesine tells Marie about her father, Jakob, dead before she was born, about leaving East Germany, and, as history threatens to take them away from New York, about the beginning of their life together in the city that they have both come to love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12226701\"\u003eUwe Johnson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681375571\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681375575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC014000\"\u003eHistorical | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC048000\"\u003eUrban \u0026amp; Street Lit\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC045000\"\u003eFamily Life | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUwe Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-1984) grew up in the small town of Anklam, Germany. He lived in New York City from 1966 until 1968 with his wife and daughter. It was during that time that he began work on \u003ci\u003eAnniversaries\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in Sheerness-on-Sea, UK, shortly after \u003ci\u003eAnniversaries\u003c\/i\u003e was published, at age forty-nine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Translation\u003c\/i\u003e. He has translated some forty books, including, for NYRB Classics, works by Patrick Modiano, Alfred Döblin, Nescio, and Robert Walser.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684800139501,"sku":"9781681375571","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_e8f96641-1108-4be9-a4b0-1ecc8772ce0a.jpg?v=1649759007","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/anniversaries-volume-2-from-a-year-in-the-life-of-gesine-cresspahl-april-1968-august-1968-9781681375571","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}