{"product_id":"captives-1","title":"Captives","description":"Used paperback in Very Good condition. \u003cp\u003eCaptives, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections-narrated in first-, second-, and third-person voices-Captives explores the lives of several defeated characters as they become almost too much to bear under the weight of endless humiliations: loss of identity, trauma of having survived the Second World War, and submission to the totalitarian state. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a moving account of a country shaken by communism and anti-Semitism and haunted by recent atrocities, from \"a distinguished writer whose vision of totalitarianism is close to Kafka's cloudy menace, universal yet internalized\" (Richard Eder, The New York Times).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manea, Norman","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53876246184219,"sku":"mon0000674163","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/22588733482476.jpg?v=1788532514","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/captives-1","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}