{"product_id":"confidential-9781620978801b","title":"Confidential","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e Most Anticipated Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe darkly comic tale of three generations of a Jewish family, from one of Poland’s most renowned contemporary authors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eConfidential \u003c\/span\u003efollows on the success of acclaimed photographer, psychologist, and writer Mikołaj Grynberg’s highly acclaimed short story collection, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eI’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To\u003c\/span\u003e, which was a finalist for numerous awards, including Poland’s most prestigious literary prize, the Nike, a National Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, and the National Translation Award in Prose for Sean Gasper Bye’s translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis powerful new novella is a darkly comic portrait of a Jewish family in today’s Poland, struggling to express their love for one another in the face of a past that cannot and will not be forgotten. The grandfather is a doctor, a Holocaust survivor who has now vowed to live only for pleasure. His son, born at the start of the war, becomes a well-respected physicist, but finds himself emotionally unable to attend conferences in Germany, despite the benefit it would give his career. The mother is loving but firm, though she has a secret habit of attending strangers’ funerals so that she can cry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece of concision, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eConfidential \u003c\/span\u003eexpands on one of the stories in I’d Like to Say Sorry . . . , tackling themes of memory, trauma, and care, as well as enduring anti-Semitism, with unforgettable power, emotional complexity, and Grynberg’s trademark black humor.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e“A novel sparing only in words and form, not in emotion.” —\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eVogue \u003c\/span\u003e(Poland)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The New Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42992431235152,"sku":"9781620978801B","price":8.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/confidential-9781620978801b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}