{"product_id":"2026100006883-secondhand-the-moon-is-down-a-novel","title":"The Moon Is Down: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st aus ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Damaged\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Boards - faded. Binding - slightly shaky. DJ - chipped with several missing pieces. Otherwise, internally sound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA taut and deeply humanist work of wartime fiction, The Moon Is Down chronicles the occupation of a small, unnamed town — widely understood to represent Norway under Nazi rule — by an unnamed military force during World War II. Steinbeck presents the psychological and moral struggle on both sides of the conflict, portraying the occupiers not as faceless monsters but as men increasingly unraveled by the quiet, unyielding resistance of the people they seek to control. With spare, almost theatrical prose, the novel illustrates how the human spirit, even under brutal suppression, refuses to be extinguished — a theme that made the book a clandestine symbol of hope for resistance movements across occupied Europe upon its 1942 publication. Steinbeck argues, with quiet but unwavering conviction, that free people can never truly be conquered, and that tyranny carries within it the seeds of its own defeat. Celebrated and controversial in equal measure upon release, The Moon Is Down endures as one of the most morally searching and emotionally resonant works to emerge from the literature of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887896867035,"sku":"2026100006883-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d5cb3804-2886-465b-945a-193e08174cae.png?v=1781748208","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100006883-secondhand-the-moon-is-down-a-novel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}