{"product_id":"9781405986762","title":"Tarantula","description":"\u003cp\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\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTarantula\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Daniel Hahn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Times","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51668435730678,"sku":"9781405986762","price":75.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8050\/3286\/files\/9781405986762-jacket-large.webp?v=1789702424","url":"https:\/\/shop.litbooks.com.my\/products\/9781405986762","provider":"Lit Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}