{"product_id":"the-retreat-9780805210965","title":"The Retreat","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all 'Jewish traits,' it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that include lessons in how to look, talk, act--in short, how to pass--as a gentile. But with Hitler on the march, the possibilities of both assimilation and retreat are quickly fading for the hotel's patrons, men and women who are necessarily--and horrifically--blind to their fate. Mordant, shrewd, and elegantly written, \u003ci\u003eThe Retreat\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving story of people forbidden to retreat from themselves, by the writer whom Irving Howe called 'one of the best novelists alive.'","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527735484759,"sku":"9780805210965","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780805210965.jpg?v=1731869038","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-retreat-9780805210965","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}