{"product_id":"9781888451887","title":"Devil's Midnight","description":"August 1919-February 1920. The Red Army is making its final,   triumphant surge across the tortured remains of the old Russian Empire. For the   defiantly apolitical artists and aesthetes at the heart of Devil's Midnight, it   is a time of disruption and apocalypse, their lives pulled between narrow   escapes, desperate intimacy, and horrific violence.  \u003cp\u003e  There's Alexey Lebedev, the son of a celebrated Russian painter recently   martyred by the Bolsheviks, who is driven deep into the conflict by a dizzying   spiral of chance encounters and impulsive decisions. There's Colonel Yuri   Skatchko, a former stage director who has abandoned the theater to serve as the brave   but reckless commander of \"Our Homeland,\" a battered ammunition train that   comes to represent, both symbolically and literally, the last hope of the White   resistance. And there's the glamorous and seductive Nata Tai, the former queen   of Russian cinema, who is busy waging her own private war with the ruthless   remnants of a notorious satanic cabal.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Kapralov depicts the desperate struggles of his characters--Yuri's stubborn   military resistance, Nata's fanatical commitment to guard the mysterious powers   of a sacred meteorite, and Alexey's struggles simply to survive--with a   perfect balance of intensity and nonchalance. In the end, the conflicts, both   personal and political, converge toward a final showdown in the frozen shadows of   the Caucasus, with Russia herself surviving as the novel's real hero, a place   of darkness and mystery and hope.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019246649584,"sku":"9781888451887","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781888451887_p0.jpg?v=1763607892","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781888451887","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}