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The Ancsas even take her along with them when Mr. Ancsa's new job requires a move to an apartment in the city.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Then Mr. Ancsa is swept up in apolitical crackdown-disappearing without a trace. For five years he does not return, five years of absence, silence, fear, and the constant struggle to survive-five years during which Mrs. Ancsa and Niki have only each other.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The story of Niki, an ordinary dog, and the Ancsas, a no less ordinary couple, is an extraordinarily touching, utterly unsentimental, parable about caring, kindness, and the endurance of love.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49528061821201,"sku":"GOR002610137","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734955434257,"sku":"NGR9781590173183","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50469646631185,"sku":"CIN159017318XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51719321223441,"sku":"CIN159017318XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52829971153169,"sku":"GOR013305281","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53682293539089,"sku":"GOR005315324","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/159017318X.jpg?v=1751181826"},{"product_id":"niki-rare-book-tibor-dery-1720698689cab","title":"Niki","description":"1961. 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Forster, and in the Indian Congress Committee were among the many involved.   Today, Tibor Déry is venerated as one of the most important literary figures of Hungary and, like Chekhov, a master of the modern short story. Love and Other Stories presents some of Déry's finest work. In \"Games of the Underworld,\" ordinary people in Budapest try to survive the winter of war in cramped cellars and encounter menacing Arrow-Cross men, a towering giant, a blind horse, a vinegar sponge; in \"The Circus,\" a group of bored children transmogrifies into a grotesque spectacle; in \"Love,\" a political prisoner is released after seven years and returns home to his wife and son. George Szirtes, the award-winning translator from the Hungarian and winner of the 2004 T.S. 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