{"product_id":"the-hoffman-affairs-9798986504810","title":"The Hoffman Affairs","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Beth S. Jaffe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Beth Schorr Jaffe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Beth Schorr Jaffe\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile searching the Montmartre Cemetery for his lost father's grave, \u003cstrong\u003e Henri Hoffman\u003c\/strong\u003e, a Parisian boy of eleven, meets an orphaned German teenager named \u003cstrong\u003eMonika\u003c\/strong\u003e. Alone, Henri allows the homeless girl to reside with him, and the two struggle together in occupied Paris from 1942-1945. Eight years after liberation, along with their toddler, \u003cstrong\u003e Jacqueline\u003c\/strong\u003e, the couple joins Henri's cousin, \u003cstrong\u003eManny Hoffman\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ean ex-GI, in New York City, where they're welcomed in by his close-knit, gentle family-Manny's wife, spinster sisters, and aspiring-actress niece. As the years wear on, the family fractures as familial relationships are sabotaged by the traumatic brutality of a haunted past-a past that, by the 1960s, is feeding on the destruction of new generations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill the wounds of war continue to drive the Hoffman family into the darkness of repression, manipulation, and abuse-or will they wake from their post-war fugue and rise above their individual tragedies before more children die?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beth Schorr Jaffe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45415624769687,"sku":"9798986504810","price":1585.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798986504810.webp?v=1767920905","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-hoffman-affairs-9798986504810","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}