{"product_id":"flowers-for-otello-by-esther-dischereit-9780857429841","title":"Flowers for Otello","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful performance text that illuminates incidents of anti-immigrant violence in contemporary Germany.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1998 and 2007, a series of killings in Germany, disdainfully styled \"doner murders\" by the media, were attributed by German police to internecine rivalries among immigrants. The victims included eight citizens of Turkish origin, a Greek citizen, and a German policewoman. Not until 2011 did the German public learn not only that the police had ignored signs pointing to the real perpetrators, a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Underground, but also that important files, possibly containing evidence implicating state agencies, had disappeared from the archives of Federal Police and intelligence organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEsther Dischereit, one of the preeminent German-Jewish voices of the post-Holocaust generation, takes that failure of the state to protect its citizens from racist violence as the core of her performance text \u003cem\u003eFlowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena\u003c\/em\u003e. Seeking an appropriate language with which to meet the bereaved, she also finds a way to raise the blanket of silence that is used by those who would prefer that we forget. Combining witness testimony, myth, and incidents from a history of violence against minorities, \u003cem\u003eFlowers for Otello\u003c\/em\u003e, in Iain Galbraith’s translation, refuses chaos, instead revealing the chilling, patterned order of tragedy while bringing a great writer’s humanism to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430719013100,"sku":"9780857429841","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857429841.jpg?v=1774558682","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/flowers-for-otello-by-esther-dischereit-9780857429841","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}