{"product_id":"russian-stories","title":"Russian Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond-Hand (Hardcover)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrift through outer space with a doomed cosmonaut whose engine is 'kaput!'; return to an irradiated village with an elderly couple who want to go home; ask yourself, did Elvis really play a concert in Red Square?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-one impish and irrepressible stories by five neglected or forgotten Russian writers. Fresh-faced vignettes from modern St Petersburg; hair-raising tales of state insanity, snatched from the Soviet archives; dark fables from the days of serfdom, when the land was untamed and life was brutish and short.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach mines a discrete facet of Russian life, history or culture, and taken as a whole they sketch a historical arc from the nineteenth century to the age of the budget airline, offering the reader a unique combination of daring, wit, dash and charm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Various","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43232787955881,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/russ_daee09a1-849f-41b3-8488-3ac1ec7b1698.webp?v=1694842512","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/russian-stories","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}