{"product_id":"9781908276360","title":"The Matiushin Case","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Matiushin Case\u003c\/i\u003e is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like \u003ci\u003eCaptain of the Steppe\u003c\/i\u003e (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's \"labor-camp writing,\" Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the horrors of conscription and the dreamlike, timeless mode of his writing. Matiushin's \"crime and punishment\" thus emerge with compelling inevitability; the victim turns killer. This hell is above all psychological—and no less universal than those of Dante or Dostoevsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eOleg Pavlov\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the most highly-regarded contemporary Russian writers. He won the Russian Booker Prize in 2002 and the Solzhenitsyn Prize in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033215320304,"sku":"9781908276360","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908276360_p0.jpg?v=1763621768","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908276360","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}