{"product_id":"shadowland-by-sarah-colvin-9781789146271","title":"Shadowland","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Nelson Mandela said, 'a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.' \u003cem\u003eShadowland\u003c\/em\u003e tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful stories of Germany's prisoners, and thereby shines new light on Germany itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story begins at the end of the Second World War, in a defeated country on the edge of collapse, in which orphaned and lost children are forced to live rough, scavenging and stealing to stay alive, often laying the foundations of a 'criminal career'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile East Germany developed detention facilities for its secret police, West Germany passed prison reform laws, which erected, in the words of a prisoner, 'little asbestos walls in Hell'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShadowland\u003c\/em\u003e is Germany as seen through the lives, experiences, triumphs and tragedies of its lowest citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845750837484,"sku":"9781789146271","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27991753482824.jpg?v=1758892915","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/shadowland-by-sarah-colvin-9781789146271","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}