{"product_id":"maidenhair-book-mikhail-shishkin-9781934824368","title":"Maidenhair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most prominent names in modern Russian literature.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDay after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a his­tory of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son \"Nebuchadnezzasaurus,\" ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire; and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia's wars and revolutions in the early part of the twentieth century, and eventually saw the Soviet Union's dissolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMikhail Shishkin's \u003ci\u003eMaidenhair\u003c\/i\u003e is an instant classic of Russian literature. It bravely takes on the eternal questions--of truth and fiction, of time and timeless­ness, of love and war, of Death and the Word--and is a movingly luminescent expression of the pain of life and its uncountable joys.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMikhail Shishkin\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Russia's most prominent and respected contemporary writers. When \u003ci\u003eMaidenhair\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2005, it was awarded both the National Bestseller Prize and the Big Book Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarian Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e is a prize-winning translator of Russian. The winner of a Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Heldt Translation Prize, Schwartz has translated classic literary works by Nina Berberova, Yuri Olesha, and Mikhail Bulgakov.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49512454619409,"sku":"GOR004999629","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49614588346641,"sku":"GOR012234079","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49712004432145,"sku":"CIN1934824364G","price":4.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49736164376849,"sku":"NGR9781934824368","price":24.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055630680337,"sku":"NIN9781934824368","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51758100152593,"sku":"CIN1934824364VG","price":5.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934824364.jpg?v=1770890942","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/maidenhair-book-mikhail-shishkin-9781934824368","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}