{"product_id":"9781447207665","title":"Hope: A Tragedy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Shalom Auslander\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 27 September 2012 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e171 x 197 x 22mm | 258g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePossibly the funniest novel of the decade' Sunday Times, Books of the Decade 2010-2019 Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past and its burdens. So, in the hope of starting afresh, he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sadly, Kugel’s life isn’t that simple. His family soon find themselves threatened by a local arsonist and his ailing mother won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she didn’t actually suffer through. And when, one night, Kugel discovers a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history hiding in his attic, bad very quickly becomes worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The humour, at times can leave you gasping . . . comic brilliance’ Sunday Times  ‘Singularly inventive and superbly shocking . . . nothing short of genius’ Scotland on Sunday ‘He will make you laugh until your heart breaks’ New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shalom Auslander","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57548325683525,"sku":"9781447207665","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781447207665.jpg?v=1774884995","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781447207665","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}