{"product_id":"9785717201247","title":"The Little Man: a novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Merciless and beautiful prose, pithy and precise . . . leaves no one unmoved.\"—\u003ci\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Real-life dialogues, vivid imagery, striking metaphors.\"—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Russia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable novel of social discontent written by a sure hand.\"—\u003ci\u003eSNOB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGangsters take complete control of an industrial town with its corrupt authorities, business, and police. Defending his daughter, the protagonist accidentally shoots the chief gangster and has to go into hiding, first among the homeless at the town garbage dump, and then in the forest among Saami deer-breeders. He becomes transformed from a \"little man\" into a people's avenger, killing the corrupt mayor and the chief of police. Through a series of tricky manipulations, a different person is accused of the serial murders in the interests of the new gangsters, who seize control of the town in the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe setting—a town on the Kola Peninsula above the Arctic Circle where the author spent her formative years—is clearly meant as a portrait in miniature of all of Russia and expresses young people's social discontent. Action-packed and highly revealing, this novel abounds in interesting ethnographic details related to the indigenous Northern tribes of Saami and life in the Northern provinces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA finalist in two major literary contests, Debut and NOS, and winner of the Northern Star Prize, \u003cb\u003eLiza Alexandrova-Zorina\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1984) is an outstanding spokeswoman for her generation and a prolific author. \u003ci\u003eThe Little Man\u003c\/i\u003e is also coming out in France and Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GLAS New Russian Writing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055421145328,"sku":"9785717201247","price":14.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9785717201247_p0.jpg?v=1763717095","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9785717201247","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}