{"product_id":"brenner","title":"Brenner","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBrenner\u003c\/h1\u003eHermann Burger\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003eJuly 1 2022\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781953861306\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 195386130X\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003e\"Hermann Burger was an artist who went the whole hog every time, didn't conserve himself. He was a man with a big longing for happiness.\" --Marcel Reich-Ranicki \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAppearing in English for the very first time, \u003ci\u003eBrenner\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightfully unusual novel full of dark humor tracing the childhood memories of the book's eponymous narrator, a scion of an ancient cigar dynasty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerpetually shrouded in a thick cloud of cigar smoke, Herman Arbogast Brenner, scion of an old and famous cigar dynasty, has decided to kill himself--but not until he has written down his forty-six years of life, in a Proustian attempt to conjure the wounds, joys, and sensations of his childhood in the rolling countryside of the Aargau region of Switzerland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEstranged from his wife and two children, he decides there is no point in squirrelling away his fortune, so he buys himself a Ferrari 328 GTS, and drives around sharing cigars with his few remaining friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this roman à clef, writing and smoking become intertwined through the act of remembering, as Brenner, a fallible, wounded, yet lovable antihero, searches for epiphany, attempting to unearth memories just out of reach-- the glimmer of a red toy car, the sound of a particular chord played on the piano, the smell of the cigars themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrenner is the final work from Hermann Burger, who died by suicide in 1989. The book comes out just days before what would have been the author's 80th birthday.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390920589357,"sku":"19510","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_ca12cc96-aaa7-4178-a938-6a2542b66f21.jpg?v=1787349290","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/brenner","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}