{"product_id":"sand-isbn-9781681372013","title":"Sand","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly  sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated  writers is now available in the US for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorth Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a series of mysterious events is playing out in the Sahara. Four people are murdered in a hippie commune, a suitcase full of money disappears, and a pair of unenthusiastic detectives are assigned to investigate. In the midst of it all, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis darkly sophisticated literary thriller, the last novel Wolfgang Herrndorf completed before his untimely death in 2013, is, in the words of Michael Maar, “the greatest, grisliest, funniest, and wisest novel of the past decade.” Certainly no reader will ever forget it.\"German original Wolfgang Herrndorf’s anarchic, brilliant and very funny thriller is like no other book, although it may help to think \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e or even better, William Gaddis’s \u003ci\u003eCarpenter’s Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e. It must be said that Herrndorf’s dialogue stands equal to that of Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon, no mean feat, and it is masterfully rendered by translator Tim Mohr on inspired form.\" —Eileen Battersby, Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a careful subversion of the crime  thriller genre: no grand exposition is given, only an elegant conclusion  left for careful readers.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"So dazzling and original...it is a masterpiece: at once a thriller, a  surrealist comedy, and a dark satire, culminating in one of the  greatest twists I’ve read.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Herrndorf...writes with an arresting cinematic vividness, and there  is more than a whiff of Coen brothers’ mayhem about the plot.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A hit in Germany...part Coen bros, part John le Carré.\" —\u003ci\u003eSunday Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Herrndorf’s] was an extraordinary mind.\" —Philip Ardagh, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gripping and brilliantly funny thriller.\" —\u003ci\u003eFocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolfgang Herrndorf \u003c\/b\u003e(1965–2013) studied painting at the  Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. After graduating, he moved to Berlin,  where he worked as a magazine illustrator and posted frequently on the  Internet forum Wir höflichen Paparazzi (We Polite Paparazzi). In 2001,  Herrndorf joined the art and writing collective Zentrale Intelligenz  Agentur, eventually contributing to their blog, \u003ci\u003eRiesenmaschine\u003c\/i\u003e (Giant Machine). He published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eIn Plüschgewittern\u003c\/i\u003e (Storm of Plush), in 2002. This was followed by a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eDiesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels\u003c\/i\u003e (This Side of the Van Allen Belt, 2007), which received the Ingeborg  Bachmann Prize Audience Award. In early 2010, he was diagnosed with a  brain tumor; his novel \u003ci\u003eTschick\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eWhy We Took the Car\u003c\/i\u003e) was published just months later and would eventually be translated into twenty-four languages. \u003ci\u003eSand \u003c\/i\u003ewas  released in 2011; it was short-listed for the German Book Prize and won  the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Herrndorf committed suicide in the summer  of 2013. His posts on \u003ci\u003eArbeit und Struktur\u003c\/i\u003e (Work and  Structure), the blog he started after receiving his cancer diagnosis,  have been published as a book of the same name. An unfinished sequel to \u003ci\u003eTschick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBilder einer großen Liebe \u003c\/i\u003e(Pictures of Your True Love), was released in 2014.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Mohr \u003c\/b\u003ehas translated the work of such authors as Alina Bronsky, Stefanie de Velasco, and Charlotte Roche, as well as Wolfgang Herrndorf’s novel \u003ci\u003eTschick\u003c\/i\u003e. His own writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, among other publications.  His history of East German punk rock, \u003ci\u003eBurning Down the Haus: Punk  Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in September 2018.  Prior to his writing career he was a club DJ in Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Maar\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary scholar and Germanist. A member of the German Academy, he is the author of a dozen books, of which \u003ci\u003eThe Two Lolitas\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSpeak, Nabokov\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBluebeard’s Chamber: Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann\u003c\/i\u003e have been translated into English.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300109471973,"sku":"NP9781681372013","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681372013.jpg?v=1767736096","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/sand-isbn-9781681372013","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}