{"product_id":"tarantula","title":"Tarantula","description":"Conversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction: an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy and the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'We woke up to screaming. In the doorway stood the silhouette of Samuel Blum, our friend and unconditional protector, now uniformed in black and carrying a club. Crawling down his left arm, I slowly noticed, was a huge tarantula.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1984, twelve-year-old Eduardo is sent to the mountains for what his parents describe as Jewish summer camp. What it turns out to be is an immersive re-enactment of a Nazi concentration camp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecades later, on the other side of the world, Eduardo sits across a table from a stranger. This is Samuel Blum, the Jewish camp counsellor who transformed into a terrifying Nazi commandant all those years ago. Now he is an old man, and he is ready to talk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTarantula\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about individual and collective inheritance, individual and collective violence; about memory, trauma, connection and estrangement. It asks what it means to be a Jew living in the long aftermath of the twentieth century, and how the past lives on the present.","brand":"Eduardo Halfon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43515880112189,"sku":null,"price":23.74,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781405986762.jpg?v=1787516469","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/tarantula","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}