{"product_id":"house-by-the-lake-book-thomas-harding-9781250065063","title":"The House by the Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Finalist for the Costa Biography Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Orwell Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London) - New Statesman (London) - \u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e (London) - \u003ci\u003eCommonweal \u003c\/i\u003emagazine \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been her soul place, she said--a holiday home for her and her family, but also a refuge--until the 1930s, when the Nazis' rise to power forced them to leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trip was his grandmother's chance to remember her childhood sanctuary as it was. But the house had changed, and when Harding returned once again nearly twenty years later, it was about to be demolished. It now belonged to the government, and as Harding began to inquire about whether the house could be saved, he unearthed secrets that had lain hidden for decades. Slowly he began to piece together the lives of the five families who had lived there: a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned composer, a widow and her children, a Stasi informant. All had made the house their home, and all but one had been forced out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe house had weathered storms, fires and abandonment, witnessed violence, betrayals and murders, and had withstood the trauma of a world war and the dividing of a nation. Breathtaking in scope and intimate in its detail, \u003ci\u003eThe House by the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking and revelatory new history of Germany, told over a tumultuous century through the story of a small wooden house.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49592603607313,"sku":"GOR009541142","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50036200014097,"sku":"CIN1250065062VG","price":4.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50244325572881,"sku":"CIN1250065062G","price":4.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53346341355793,"sku":"CIN1250065062A","price":4.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250065062.jpg?v=1750823996","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/house-by-the-lake-book-thomas-harding-9781250065063","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}