{"product_id":"9781908670199","title":"The Dead Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003eA haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYerzhan grows up in a remote part of Soviet Kazakhstan where atomic weapons are tested. As a young boy he falls in love with the neighbour’s daughter and one evening, to impress her, he dives into a forbidden lake. The radioactive water changes Yerzhan. He will never grow into a man. While the girl he loves becomes a beautiful woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy Peirene chose to publish this book: ‘Like a Grimm’s fairy tale, this story transforms an innermost fear into an outward reality. We witness a prepubescent boy’s secret terror of not growing up into a man. We also wander in a beautiful, fierce landscape unlike any other we find in Western literature. And by the end of Yerzhan’s tale we are awe-struck by our human resilience in the face of catastrophic, man-made, follies.’ \u003cstrong\u003eMeike Ziervogel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A haunting and resonant fable.’ \u003cstrong\u003eBoyd Tonkin, \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A tantalising mixture of magical and grim realism . . . a powerful study of alienation and environmental catastrophe.’ \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Mills, \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A poetic masterpiece, a novella of shocking legacies, alien beauty and blistering emotional intensity.’ \u003cstrong\u003ePam Norfolk, \u003cem\u003eLancashire Evening Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A writer of immense poetic power.’ \u003cstrong\u003eKapka Kassabova, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A novella which draws on myth, fairy tale, poetry and traditional story-telling, it stirs them together to create an unusual parable of a modern arms race cruelly impacting on a traditional way of life.’ \u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Buchan, \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This superb novella . . . reads like a modern fairy-tale, full of a surreal yet mundane horror.’ \u003cstrong\u003eLesley McDowell, \u003cem\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Central Asian storytelling at its best.’ \u003cstrong\u003eMarion James, \u003cem\u003eToday's Zaman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGUARDIAN READERS' BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peirene Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137414152432,"sku":"9781908670199","price":7.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908670199_p0.jpg?v=1763622179","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908670199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}