{"product_id":"a-present-past-sergei-lebedev-9781954404182","title":"A Present Past: Titan and Other Chronicles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A tour de force--exquisite and gripping.\"--\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Sands, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEast West Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them more movingly than Russian author Sergei Lebedev, who in this stunning volume probes a collective guilty conscience marked by otherworldliness and the denial of misdeeds. These eleven tales share a mystical topography in which the legacy of totalitarian regimes is ever-present--from Katyn to Chechnya, from Lithuanian KGB documents to the streetscape of unified Berlin, from the fragments of family history to the echoes of foot soldiers in Russia's wars of aggression. In these stories, as in Lebedev's acclaimed novels, the voices of things, places, animals, and people seek justice for a restless past, where steel claws scrape just beneath the surface and where the heredity of evil is uninterrupted, unacknowledged, unnamed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sergei Lebedev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954404182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954404182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Vessel Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/02\/2023 pg. 1","brand":"Sergei Lebedev","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074632118527,"sku":"9781954404182","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1109c5f2-1632-4890-811e-c068f843925e.jpg?v=1685454874","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-present-past-sergei-lebedev-9781954404182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}