{"product_id":"to-be-a-man-book-nicole-krauss-9781443449403","title":"To Be a Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a dazzling collection of stories, the New York\u003cbr\u003e Times-bestselling author of The History of Love, National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e finalist Nicole Krauss, explores what it means to be in that most perplexing of\u003cbr\u003e partnerships: a couple.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn one of her strongest books of fiction, Nicole Krauss plunges\u003cbr\u003e fearlessly into the confusion of what it is to be a man and what it is to be a\u003cbr\u003e woman that has existed from the very beginning in all Western myths that inform\u003cbr\u003e our culture. Set in contemporary times in Switzerland New York, Tel Aviv, Los\u003cbr\u003e Angeles and South America, these stories open a window onto young women's\u003cbr\u003e coming of age and their newfound, somewhat mysterious sexual power, as well as\u003cbr\u003e the opportunities and dangers it presents (\"Switzerland\"). In a Los Angeles of\u003cbr\u003e terrible wildfires, a high school student, distressed by her divorcing parents\u003cbr\u003e and determined to assert her agency in the intoxicating freedom of a dangerous\u003cbr\u003e environment, forges an original and surprising sexual path (\"End Days\"). Men\u003cbr\u003e play a key role in all these stories as fathers, lovers, friends, children,\u003cbr\u003e seducers--even\u003cbr\u003e as a husband who is not a husband (\"The Husband\"). \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe stories mirror one another and resonate beautifully with\u003cbr\u003e a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel: aging\u003cbr\u003e parents and newborn babies; generation gaps and unexpected deliveries of\u003cbr\u003e strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or one still to\u003cbr\u003e come. The two stories that bookend the collection, \"Switzerland\" and \"To Be a\u003cbr\u003e Man,\" perfectly introduce and play out the author's major themes: sex and violence,\u003cbr\u003e men and women, coming of age and growing older.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50376237449489,"sku":"CIN1443449407G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53632352452881,"sku":"CIN1443449407VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1443449407.jpg?v=1750795019","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/to-be-a-man-stories-buch-krauss-nicole-9781443449403","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}