{"product_id":"9781035427307","title":"The Brass Age","description":"Author: Slobodan najder\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035427307\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Welbeck Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Aug 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 624 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Like Olga Tokarczuk,  najder has written a novel about a Europe that has lost its diversity and has been\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003edestroyed by fascism, communism and, in recent times, nationalism ... a modern epic' \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece'\u003ci\u003e La Repubblica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe very next day processions of young men, some still children, began to move around the little town of Nu tar, with drums providing a steady rhythm ... These young men came from German families, Germans living outside the Reich, Volksdeutsche. Some stayed in their houses, some were shut up in the storeroom by their mothers, but as time went on more and more of them followed the drumming ...\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1769. A hungry year in Germany. Kempf the ancestor departs his homeland with his compatriots in search of a brighter future. Years pass and generations of Germans make Slavonia their home. But in 1940, when Europe is at war once more, this minority, the \u003ci\u003eVolksdeutsch\u003c\/i\u003e, are called to fight for the Reich, for a land now foreign to them.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong their ranks is Georg Kempf, the narrator's father. Forcibly conscripted into the Waffen SS, he deserts, aware of the danger that this involves. At the end of the war, he falls in love with a committed partisan called Vera despite the unimaginable: if they had met earlier, each one would have had to kill the other.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Brass Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Slobodan  najder's masterpiece, is both a family saga and a powerful historical novel about the destiny of those shackled by history, and the generations doomed to inherit the contradictory fates of their forebears.  najder looks to his own biography to capture two hundred years of conflict and dividing ideology. In the process, he reconstructs a world that fell apart.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46454589718686,"sku":"ADS-9781035427307","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781035427307.jpg?v=1769668343","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781035427307","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}