{"product_id":"waiting-for-war-by-claude-delarue","title":"'Waiting for War' by Claude Delarue","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"231\" data-end=\"521\"\u003eSet against the atmosphere of late–Cold War Europe, \u003cem data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"307\"\u003eWaiting for War\u003c\/em\u003e follows a group of characters caught in the psychological condition implied by the title. Catastrophe may arrive at any moment, and yet life continues in a suspended, almost theatrical calm.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"994\"\u003ePersonal relationships, political anxieties, and private obsessions drift together as the characters attempt to interpret signals from a world that feels perpetually on the verge of conflict. The result is a tense, quietly philosophical novel about paranoia, expectation, and the cultural mood of a continent accustomed to living in the shadow of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1262\"\u003eWritten in the early 1990s—when the ideological structures of the Cold War were collapsing but its psychological residue remained—the book reads as a portrait of a society unsure whether the future will bring relief or disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44181920743507,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics-2026-03-11T180944.668.png?v=1773212997","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/waiting-for-war-by-claude-delarue","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}