{"product_id":"the-retreat","title":"The Retreat","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all \"Jewish traits,\" it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that include lessons in how to look, talk, act--in short, how to pass--as a gentile. But with Hitler on the march, the possibilities of both assimilation and retreat are quickly fading for the hotel's patrons, men and women who are necessarily--and horrifically--blind to their fate. Mordant, shrewd, and elegantly written, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Retreat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a moving story of people forbidden to retreat from themselves, by the writer whom Irving Howe called \"one of the best novelists alive.\"\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965672943916,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/danebooksandgifts.myshopify.com\/products\/the-retreat","provider":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}