{"product_id":"knulp-by-hermann-hesse","title":"'Knulp' by Hermann Hesse","description":"\u003ch4\u003eA slim, melancholy triptych following Knulp, a charming wanderer who moves from town to town, briefly entering other people’s lives before moving on again.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross three linked stories, Hesse builds a portrait of someone both loved and fundamentally unmoored: too restless for ordinary domestic life, but increasingly aware of the cost of remaining outside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1915, \u003cem\u003eKnulp\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Hesse’s quieter early works, concerned with freedom, loneliness, friendship, illness and the tension between belonging and escape. The book has the feel of a folk tale stripped of sentimentality: episodic, tender, and shadowed from the beginning by the knowledge that wandering cannot continue forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicador \/ Pan Books, London, 1981. Sixth printing of the Picador edition, first published 1974. Paperback. Translated from the German; this English translation first published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape in 1972.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46148086693971,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/novels_novellas_22.png?v=1788496410","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/knulp-by-hermann-hesse","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}