{"product_id":"9781770902275","title":"The Last Hiccup: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A strange and surprisingly touching novel about how people find good and evil where they look for them” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In 1930s Russia, an eight-year-old boy named Vladimir is suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon finds himself spirited away to a Moscow hospital by the famous physician Sergei Namestikov, who puts him through a series of extraordinary—and often bizarre—treatments in an effort to find a cure.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Then Sergei’s chief medical rival, the brilliant Alexander Afiniganov, determines that beneath Vladimir’s blank eyes lurks a pure, unbridled evil—and takes steps to remove the child from polite society. Abandoned by everyone but his hiccups, Vladimir is about to embark on a journey that is funny, poignant, and surreal—and that takes a close look at the nature of good and evil—in this novel, a winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction from the author of \u003ci\u003eHanna Who Fell From the Sky.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A beautifully written novel, part folk tale, part parable.” —Will Ferguson, author of \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131270054128,"sku":"9781770902275","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770902275_p0.jpg?v=1769890629","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770902275","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}