{"product_id":"9781466807990","title":"Kangaroo","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne morning in 1949, Fan Fanych, alias Etcetera, is summoned from his Moscow apartment to KGB headquarters, where he is informed that he will be charged with a crime more heinous than any mere man could ever devise.  Comrade Etcetera will be tried for \"the vicious rape and murder of an aged kangaroo in the Moscow Zoo on a night between July 14, 1789, and January 9, 1905.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery moment in the nightmarish and hilarious account that follows lives up to the absurdity of this accusation.  A seductive KGB agent attempts to convince Fan Fanych that he is a kangaroo; he finds himself in the dock at a spectacular show trial; is sent to a camp full of dedicated old Bolsheviks pathetically attempting to maintain their beliefs in the face of every new atrocity; encounters Hitler in Berlin and Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Yalta, where he is privileged to witness the famous conference as it was \u003ci\u003ereally \u003c\/i\u003econducted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKangaroo \u003c\/i\u003eis a savage, cleansing satire in which Yuz Aleshkovsky confronts the hypocrisy, the cruelty, and the tragic failure of the Soviet regime.  His phantasmagoria is faithful to reality, for--as Dostoevsky knew--it is impossible for \"realism\" to portray a society whose corruption is literally fantastic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164991734000,"sku":"9781466807990","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466807990_p0.jpg?v=1769890852","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466807990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}