{"title":"Benjamin Stein","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-canvas","title":"The Canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eSeptember 26, 2012\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 330 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-65-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“A novel as suspenseful as it is complex.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Deutsche Welle TV\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLoosely based on the true story of Binjamin Wilkomirski, whose fabricated 1995 Holocaust memoir transfixed the reading public, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Canvas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has a singular construction—its two inter-related narratives begin at either end of the book and meet in the middle. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmnon Zichroni, a psychoanalyst in Zurich, encourages Minsky to write a book about his traumatic childhood experience in a Nazi death camp, a memoir which the journalist Jan Wechsler claims is a fiction. Ten years later, a suitcase arrives on Wechsler’s doorstep. Allegedly, he lost the suitcase an a trip to Israel, but Wechsler has no memory of the suitcase, nor the trip, and he travels to Israel to investigate the mystery. But it turns out he has been to Israel before, and his host on the trip, Amnon Zichroni, has been missing ever since... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mind-bending investigation of memory, identity, truth, and delusion, \u003cem\u003eThe Canvas\u003c\/em\u003e is the publishing event of the year, a novel whose meaning depends on the order in which it is read. \u003cem\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/the-canvas-excerpt\" title=\"The Canvas - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the German by Brian Zumhagen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBenjamin Stein was born in East Berlin in 1970. He has worked as an editor and correspondent for various computer magazines and has been a corporate It advisor since 1998. He owns the author-run publishing house Edition Neue Moderne and writes the literary weblog “Turmsegler.” Benjamin Stein is married with two children and lives in Munich.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Benjamin Stein’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Canvas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a riveting work of literature. Its many layered complexity and linguistic elegance defy categorization. This book can be read as a literary detective story as well as a subtle psychological novel.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Jüdische Zeitung\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Benjamin Stein","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":388311256,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/canvas_highres.jpg?v=1383080597"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/benjamin-stein\/benjamin-stein.oembed","provider":"Open Letter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}