{"product_id":"w-hardcover","title":"W. - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteve Sem-Sandberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSaskia Vogel\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this internationally acclaimed novel, Steve Sem-Sandberg brilliantly refracts the story of Büchner's groundbreaking play \u003ci\u003eWoyzeck\u003c\/i\u003e through a new lens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eW.\u003c\/i\u003e, the astonishing new novel by August Prize- winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg, is a literary reimagining of one of modern literature's touchstone texts, the play \u003ci\u003eWoyzeck\u003c\/i\u003e. Considered the first modern drama, \u003ci\u003eWoyzeck\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a loyal soldier and survivor of the Napoleonic Wars who, in a fit of jealous rage, kills the woman he loves. In 1836 this true story inspired Georg Büchner to write the play, unfinished at his death at just twenty-three years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eW.\u003c\/i\u003e grippingly recounts the lovers' relationship, the murder case, and the soldier's execution. The story unfolds as the soldier W. struggles to recount the events of his life. He grasps at understanding and experiences feelings of time and timelessness. He finds patterns and repetitions, but these are of no interest to those determining his fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSem-Sandberg searched court archives to bring new light to this story, and he masterfully sustains a rich period atmosphere through poetic and controlled prose, down to the choice of pronouns as the soldier is held at a cold distance in court proceedings when addressed with the formal, capitalized \"You.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst a landscape devastated by inhumanity and greed that, yet, manages to sustain hope, Steve Sem-Sandberg's \u003ci\u003eW.\u003c\/i\u003e tells a ruthless, moving, and utterly relevant story as the soldier W. desperately and humanly fights to make something of the life given to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Sem-Sandberg\u003c\/b\u003e's novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of Lies\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the August Prize;\u003ci\u003e The Chosen Ones\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of France's Prix Médicis étranger; and \u003ci\u003eW.\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Eyvind Johnson Prize. His books have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into thirty languages. In 2020 he was elected to the Swedish Academy, the body that chooses the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaskia Vogel\u003c\/b\u003e is an author and translator from Los Angeles, currently living in Berlin. She was a 2021 PEN Translation Prize finalist and Princeton University's Fall 2022 Translator in Residence. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003ePermission\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in five languages, and she was awarded the 2021 Berlin Senate Grant for Non-German language Literature for her writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252219330809,"sku":"9781419751226","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VUdpMWxlMVE4TVRiMWxLcm9WMFlPdz09.webp?v=1768684689","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/w-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}