{"product_id":"9780300281941","title":"The Children of the Dead","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Jelinek, Elfriede\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 9 May 2025 by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United States as part of 'The Margellos World Republic of Letters' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 496 pages, 1 b-w illus.\u003cbr\u003e235 x 156\u003cp\u003eThe magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek—a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria  “The surface of [Jelinek’s] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek’s novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, an enormous, spectral kaleidoscope erected before the unfathomable.”—Dustin Illingworth, Washington Post   The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria’s scenic landscape among historic churches and castles. It is a vacation idyll that attracts tourists from all over Europe. It is also a mass burial site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Amid the snow-topped peaks and panoramic vistas, ghosts haunt the forest: Edgar Gstranz, a young skier who died in a car crash; Gudrun Bichler, a philosophy student who committed suicide in her bathtub; and Karin Frenzel, a widow who (perhaps) died in a bus accident. As the three slip in and out of the hotel, engaging unsuspecting tourists and seeking a way to return to life, the soil begins to crack under their feet as the dead of the Holocaust awaken: zombies determined to exact their revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Scrupulously rendered for the first time in English by Gitta Honegger, The Children of the Dead takes readers on a mind-bending ride through time, space, and memory. Concocted from experimental theater, splatter film, Gothic literature, philosophy, religion, and more, Jelinek’s phantasmagorical masterwork is a fierce confrontation with our fraught legacies in the name of the innocent dead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jelinek, Elfriede","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51136000524472,"sku":"9780300281941","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780300281941.jpg?v=1747730935","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780300281941","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}