{"product_id":"magda-by-meike-ziervogel","title":"'Magda' by Meike Ziervogel","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"33\" data-end=\"641\"\u003eThe imagined the interior life of Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels and one of the Third Reich's most notorious figures, who murdered her six children before taking her own life in Hitler's Berlin bunker.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"33\" data-end=\"641\"\u003eMeike Ziervogel constructs a fragmented psychological portrait that moves backwards through Magda's life, exploring childhood, motherhood, ideology, abuse and the slow construction of fanaticism. The novel asks not how to excuse evil, but how it becomes inhabitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"643\" data-end=\"1194\"\u003eOriginally published in English in 2013, \u003cem data-start=\"684\" data-end=\"691\"\u003eMagda\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize and won the English PEN Award. Ziervogel, herself German-born, writes with striking restraint, refusing easy moral certainties while examining the intersections of private trauma and political extremism. The result sits somewhere between literary fiction, psychological biography and historical inquiry, making it compelling reading for those interested in the legacy of fascism, inherited violence and the uneasy relationship between history and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"643\" data-end=\"1194\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2013 Salt Publishing paperback, warmly inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Very good condition with light shelf wear, clean pages and a firm binding.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45756453290067,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/bringdogs_babies_grandparents_48.png?v=1782906277","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/magda-by-meike-ziervogel","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}