{"product_id":"ring-roads-9781408867938","title":"Ring Roads","description":"\u003cp\u003eRing Roads  for which Modiano was awarded the French Academys Grand Prix du Roman (1972)  is the story of a young Jew  Serge  in search of his father  Chalva  who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of black marketeers  anti-Semites and prostitutes  putting his meagre and not entirely orthodox business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. Ring Roads is a brilliant  almost hallucinatory evocation of the uneasy  corrupt years of the Occupation and like The Night Watch is both cruel and tender - savage in its depiction of the anti-Semitic newspaper editor  the bullying ex-Foreign Legionnaire and the former prostitute  who treat Chalva with ever more threatening contempt; tender in its attempt to understand and identify with the Jew who cannot see the danger he courts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924795359285,"sku":"ByrdShop_1408867931","price":248.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781408867938.jpg?v=1794141386","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ring-roads-9781408867938","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}