{"product_id":"tarantula-eduardo-halfon-9781405986762","title":"Tarantula","description":"\u003cp\u003eConversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction- an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy and the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'We woke up to screaming. In the doorway stood the silhouette of Samuel Blum, our friend and unconditional protector, now uniformed in black and carrying a club. Crawling down his left arm, I slowly noticed, was a huge tarantula.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1984, twelve-year-old Eduardo is sent to the mountains for what his parents describe as Jewish summer camp. What it turns out to be is an immersive re-enactment of a Nazi concentration camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDecades later, on the other side of the world, Eduardo sits across a table from a stranger. This is Samuel Blum, the Jewish camp counsellor who transformed into a terrifying Nazi commandant all those years ago. Now he is an old man, and he is ready to talk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTarantula is a novel about individual and collective inheritance, individual and collective violence; about memory, trauma, connection and estrangement. It asks what it means to be a Jew living in the long aftermath of the twentieth century, and how the past lives on the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eduardo Halfon","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49265676058867,"sku":"9781405986762","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781405986762.jpg?v=1781554928","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/tarantula-eduardo-halfon-9781405986762","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}