{"product_id":"castle-gripsholm-new-york-review-books-classics","title":"Castle Gripsholm (New York Review Books Classics)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beguiling fable about a summer holiday in the Swedish countryside that transforms into a provocative parable about oppression and the evil awaiting Europe as the Nazis came to power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCastle Gripsholm, the best and most beloved work by Kurt Tucholsky, is a short novel about an enchanted summer holiday. It begins with an assignment: Tucholsky’s publisher wants him to write something light and funny, otherwise about whatever Tucholsky wants. A deal is struck and the story is off: about Peter, a writer; his girlfriend, known as the Princess; and a summer vacation far from the hurly-burly of Berlin. Peter and the Princess have rented a small house attached to a historic castle in Sweden, and they have five weeks of long days and white nights at their disposal; five weeks for swimming and walking and sex and talking and visits with Peter’s buddy Karlchen and with Billie, the Princess’s best friend. It is perfect, until they meet a weeping girl fleeing the cruel headmistress of a home for children. The vacationers decide they must free the girl and send her back to her mother in Switzerland, which brings about an encounter with authority that casts a worrying shadow over their radiant summer idyll. Soon they must return to Germany. What kind of fairy tale are they living in?","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42889179070544,"sku":"9781681373348B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781681373348-l.jpg?v=1788314418","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/castle-gripsholm-new-york-review-books-classics","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}