{"product_id":"youth-without-god-9780571358229b","title":"Youth Without God","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe old man started to talk about the trial. He blamed everyone involved, including the teacher, i.e. me. In his view the root cause of the problem was that everybody involved - teachers, parents, boys - behaved as if God no longer existed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA schoolteacher is denounced and accused of 'sabotage of the Fatherland' when he reprimands a student for making a racist remark. The class petition against him. A murder follows. During the trial, the teacher decides to risk everything by telling the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in 1937, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eJugend Ohne Gott\u003c\/span\u003e is the penultimate novel by Ödön von Horváth. It was judged by Thomas Mann to be the best novel of recent years. This powerful evocation of everyday life in the shadow of fascism also garnered praise from Hermann Hesse, Franz Werfel and Joseph Roth, who called Horváth 'the most clear-sighted chronicler of his age'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42819783163984,"sku":"9780571358229B","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780571358229-l.jpg?v=1785877347","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/youth-without-god-9780571358229b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}