{"product_id":"9781934824368","title":"Maidenhair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most prominent names in modern Russian literature.\"— \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDay after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter—the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise—and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a his­tory of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son \"Nebuchadnezzasaurus,\" ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire; and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia’s wars and revolutions in the early part of the twentieth century, and eventually saw the Soviet Union's dissolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMikhail Shishkin's \u003ci\u003eMaidenhair\u003c\/i\u003e is an instant classic of Russian literature. It bravely takes on the eternal questions—of truth and fiction, of time and timeless­ness, of love and war, of Death and the Word—and is a movingly luminescent expression of the pain of life and its uncountable joys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMikhail Shishkin\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Russia's most prominent and respected contemporary writers. When \u003ci\u003eMaidenhair\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2005, it was awarded both the National Bestseller Prize and the Big Book Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarian Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e is a prize-winning translator of Russian. The winner of a Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Heldt Translation Prize, Schwartz has translated classic literary works by Nina Berberova, Yuri Olesha, and Mikhail Bulgakov.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033828704496,"sku":"9781934824368","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934824368_p0.jpg?v=1763655278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934824368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}