{"product_id":"kingdom-of-twilight-steven-uhly","title":"Kingdom of Twilight, Steven Uhly","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \"powerful and original\" (The Times) historical saga that follows the quest for identity, redemption and home in the wake of World War II.\u003cbr\u003eOne night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland. An SS officer is shot dead by a young Polish Jew, Margarita Ejzenstain. In retaliation, his commander orders the execution of thirty-seven Poles--one for every year of the dead man's life. First hidden by a sympathetic German couple, Margarita must then flee the brutal advance of the Soviet army with her newborn baby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins a thrilling panorama of intermingled destinies and events that reverberate from that single act of defiance. Kingdom of Twilight follows the lives of Jewish refugees and a German family resettled from Bukovina, as well as a former SS officer, chronicling the geographical and psychological dislocation generated by war. A quest for identity and truth takes them from refugee camps to Lübeck, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and New York, as they try to make sense of a changed world, and of their place in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHypnotically lyrical and intensely moving, Steven Uhly's epic novel is a finely nuanced yet shattering exploration of universal themes: love, hatred, doubt, survival, guilt, humanity, and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MacLehose Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61320599568718,"sku":"9780857054982","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9780857054982.jpg?v=1792673996","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/kingdom-of-twilight-steven-uhly","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}