{"product_id":"buddenbrooks-by-thomas-mann-9780749386474","title":"Buddenbrooks","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/em\u003e, Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic, is the book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover Mann's Nobel Prize-winning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family—wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this, Mann's first novel, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty. His astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic remains a powerful exploration of societal and cultural shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' - New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46271898255596,"sku":"9780749386474","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780749386474.jpg?v=1742262968","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/buddenbrooks-by-thomas-mann-9780749386474","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}