{"product_id":"maidenhair-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 his-tory 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 timeless-ness, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2875502\"\u003eMikhail Shishkin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.57w x 1.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934824368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934824364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC120030\"\u003eWorld Literature | Russia | 21st Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48463236366573,"sku":"9781934824368","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_aa1e49c1-b44c-4178-af70-06377cd10234.jpg?v=1753719923","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/maidenhair-9781934824368","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}