{"product_id":"9781623655884","title":"Russian Stories","description":"Drift through outer space with a doomed cosmonaut whose engine is kaput!; return to an irradiated village with an elderly couple who want to go home; ask yourself, did Elvis really play a concert in Red Square?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-one impish and irrepressible stories by five neglected or forgotten Russian writers. Fresh-faced vignettes from modern St Petersburg; hair-raising tales of state insanity, snatched from the Soviet archives; dark fables from the days of serfdom, when the land was untamed and life was brutish and short.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach mines a discrete facet of Russian life, history or culture, and taken as a whole they sketch a historical arc from the nineteenth century to the age of the budget airline, offering the reader a unique combination of daring, wit, dash and charm.","brand":"Quercus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130637467888,"sku":"9781623655884","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623655884_p0.jpg?v=1763860835","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623655884","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}