{"product_id":"9781681373348","title":"Castle Gripsholm","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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCastle Gripsholm\u003c\/i\u003e, 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":"Kurt Tucholsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035657973972,"sku":"9781681373348","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_41ae0645-87dc-4b46-8e9f-fdf67b8a5877.jpg?v=1780366998","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781681373348","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}