{"product_id":"children-of-radium-a-buried-inheritance-9780241517468","title":"Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joe Dunthorne\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOff-beat, irreverent and subversive – a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSubmarine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'The best book I’ve read in the past year \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA masterpiece' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'An extraordinary and unexpected journey' Philippe Sands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Joe Dunthorne has written a contemporary classic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e' Andrew O'Hagan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great-grandfather, Siegfried: an eccentric scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who returned to Germany under cover of the Berlin Olympics to pull off a heist on his own home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life – an unpublished, two-thousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had managed to read it. And, as it turned out when Joe finally read the manuscript himself, it told a very different story from the one he thought he knew…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thus begins a mystery which stretches across the twentieth century and around the world, from Berlin to Ankara, New York, Glasgow and eventually London – a mystery about the production of something much more sinister than toothpaste. On the trail of one ‘jolly grandpa’ with a patchy psychiatric history and an encyclopaedic knowledge of poison gases, Joe Dunthorne is forced to confront the uncomfortable questions that lie at the heart of every family. Can we ever understand where we come from? Is every family in the end a work of fiction? And even if the truth can be found – will we be able to live with it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChildren of Radium\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a remarkable, searching meditation on individual and collective inheritance. Witty and wry, deeply humane and endlessly surprising, it considers the long half-life of trauma, the weight of guilt and the ever-evasive nature of the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45848316248215,"sku":"9780241517468","price":1497.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780241517468.webp?v=1768602955","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/children-of-radium-a-buried-inheritance-9780241517468","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}