{"product_id":"the-broken-house-by-horst-kruger-9781529113198","title":"The Broken House","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe major rediscovery of a forgotten masterpiece in the mould of \u003cem\u003eAlone in Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStoner\u003c\/em\u003e - the literary memoir of a youth in Nazi Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years after the end of the war, Horst Krüger attempted to make sense of his childhood. He had grown up in a quiet Berlin suburb. Here, people lived ordinary lives, believed in God, obeyed the law, and were gradually seduced by the promises of Nazism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe had been 'the typical child of innocuous Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do their work'. With tragic inevitability, this world of respectability, order and duty began to crumble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in accomplished prose of lingering beauty, \u003cem\u003eThe Broken House\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving coming-of-age story that provides a searing portrait of life under the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46380070732012,"sku":"9781529113198","price":20.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11553703482732.jpg?v=1744840117","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-broken-house-by-horst-kruger-9781529113198","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}