{"product_id":"youth-a-novel","title":"Youth – A Novel","description":"Wolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy years: a radical, not to say terrifying, stylist; a caustic, jet-black comedian; a bitter prophet. His late, autobiographical work--the short, intense autofiction, Youth, translated here for the first time--is a portrait of the little north German town of Greifswald before World War I, and is a miracle of compression: this is not historical fiction, but a kind of personal apocalypse. Also included here, in Michael Hofmann's brilliant translation, is one of Koeppen's very last works: a short, fragmentary text spoken over a 1990 German television program depicting his return visit to the town of his schooldays.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32074916134995,"sku":"9781628970500","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781628970500_d057297b-4727-4b4d-8117-cbb9822ebc84.jpg?v=1765280709","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/youth-a-novel","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}