{"product_id":"a-little-annihilation-by-anna-janko-9781642860665","title":"A Little Annihilation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJune 1, 1943, Eastern Poland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin just a few hours, the village of Sochy had ceased to exist. Buildings were burned. Residents shot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the survivors was nine-year-old Teresa Ferenc, who saw her family murdered by German soldiers, and would never forget what she witnessed the day she became an orphan. The horror of that event was etched into her very being and passed on to her daughter, author Anna Janko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Little Annihilation\u003c\/em\u003e bears witness to both the crime and its aftershocks - the trauma visited on the next generation - as revealed in a beautifully scripted and deeply personal mother-daughter dialogue. As she fathoms the full dimension of the tragedy, Janko reflects on memory and loss, the ethics of helplessness, and the lingering effects of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation. \u003cem\u003eA Little Annihilation\u003c\/em\u003e by Anna Janko is an extraordinarily personal and powerful account of how the worst wartime atrocities affect ordinary people and are seldom recorded in the official histories.' - Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Man Booker International Prize for \u003cem\u003eFlights\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'This is a book about children in war and how we inherit trauma - factual and unflinching, but touching and tender... As with Svetlana Alexievich's reportage, in this book war is shown not only as a tragic episode in history, but as a living memory, which even after many years puts us on our guard as a danger which could recur.' - Lithub\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47485773676780,"sku":"9781642860665","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781642860665-a-little-annihilation.jpg?v=1775715206","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-little-annihilation-by-anna-janko-9781642860665","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}