{"product_id":"propagandist","title":"Propagandist","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height:280px\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Books of 2024 and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Notable Translations of 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"C√©cile Desprairies's novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Propagandist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, is full of so many secrets that it's a wonder she managed to write it all.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e‚ÄîThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones. Years later, the silent witness to these sessions has become a prominent historian, and with this chilling autobiographical novel she sets out to unmask enigmatic figures in and around her family. Why, she seeks to understand, did the narrator's relatives zealously collaborate with the Nazi occupiers of France, even remaining for decades afterward obsessive devotees of that evil lost cause?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 0; display: none;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New Vessel Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120372486429,"sku":"9781954404267","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781954404267.jpg?v=1751402708","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/propagandist","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}