{"product_id":"director-bpb","title":"The Director (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew Statesman \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFiction Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Notable Book of 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTranslated Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook of the Year 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Nothing short of brilliant' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A subtle, often darkly funny novel about the relationship between art and power' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A dazzling performance and a real page turner' Salman Rushdie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 'one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today' (Jeffrey Eugenides), a visionary tale inspired by the life of the 20th century film director G.W. Pabst, who left Europe for Hollywood to resist the Nazis and then returned to his homeland with his wife and young son and began making films for the German Reich.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn artist's life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eG.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him. And thus, almost through no fault of his own, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. The returning family is confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. But Goebbels, the minister of propaganda in Berlin, wants the film genius, he won't take no for an answer and makes big promises. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Kehlmann's novel about art and power, beauty and barbarism is a triumph. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Director \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eshows what literature is capable of.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Kehlmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163876737202,"sku":"9781529435153","price":305.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781529435153.jpg?v=1775114334","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/director-bpb","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}