{"product_id":"bastard-factory","title":"Bastard Factory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Kraus’ \u003ci\u003eThe Bastard Factory \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga and Moscow, Berlin and Munich, all the way to Tel Aviv.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth century. They will find themselves – along with their Jewish adopted sister, Ev Solm – caught up in in the maelstrom of their changing times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the two brothers climb the rungs of society – working first for the government in Nazi Germany, then as agents for the Allied forces, and eventually becoming spies for the young West Germany – Ev will be their constant companion, and eventually a lover to them both. The passionate love triangle that emerges will propel the characters to terrifying moral and political depths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of the Solms is also the story of twentieth-century Germany: the decline of an old world and the rise of a new one – under new auspices but with the same familiar protagonists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated from the German by Ruth Martin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57405505339774,"sku":"NW9781509879106","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781509879106.jpg?v=1778681748","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/bastard-factory","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}