{"product_id":"9781590179734","title":"Bright Magic : Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Alfred Doblin was a titan of modern German literature. This collection of stories--astonishingly, the first collection of his stories ever published in English--shows him to have been equally adept in shorter forms.  Included in its entirety is Doblin'sfirst book, The Murder of a Buttercup, a work of savage brilliance and a landmark of literary expressionism. Mortality roams the streets of nineteenth-century Manhattan, with a white borzoi and a quiet smile. A ballerina duels to the death with the stupid childish body she is bound to. We experience, in the celebrated title story, a dizzying descent into a shattered mind. The collection is then rounded off with two longer stories written when Doblin was in exile from Nazi Germany in Southern California, including the delightful \"Materialism: A Fable,\" in which news of humanity's soulless doctrines spreads to the animals, elements, and molecules of nature\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49044918010091,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":29.2,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781590179734-1.jpg?v=1784031814","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781590179734","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}