{"product_id":"the-book-of-mordechai-and-lazarus","title":"The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Mordechai\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLazarus\u003c\/i\u003e are the first and the second novels by Hungarian writer Gábor Schein. Published together in one volume, they comprise the first in Seagull Books’s new Hungarian List series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Both novels trace the legacy of the Holocaust in Hungary. \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Mordechai\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of three generations in a Hungarian Jewish family, interwoven with the biblical narrative of Esther. \u003ci\u003eLazarus\u003c\/i\u003e relates the relationship between a son, growing up in the in the final decades of late-communist Hungary, and his father, who survived the depredations of Hungarian fascists during World War II. \u003ci\u003eMordechai\u003c\/i\u003e is an act of recovery—an attempt to seize a coherent story from a historical maelstrom. By contrast, \u003ci\u003eLazarus\u003c\/i\u003e, like Kafka’s unsent letter to his own father, is an act of defiance. Against his father’s wish to never be the subject of his son’s writing, the narrator places his father at the center of his story. Together, both novels speak to a contemporary Hungarian society that remains all too silent towards the crimes of the past.","brand":"Adam Z. Levy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42851223568445,"sku":"9780857424419","price":41.36,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780857424419_d538a495-1258-404a-880c-f3bfca1e79ad.jpg?v=1767073386","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-book-of-mordechai-and-lazarus","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}