{"product_id":"living-in-fire-antoine-volodine-9781517919771","title":"Living in Fire: A Post-Exotic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA soldier engulfed in napalm suspends his death by composing a family saga in which he learns to live within the flames\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDo not remain on the fire's edge, find your way to the heart of the fire and do not leave. . . . Death does not exist as long as you reject it. \u003c\/i\u003eA soldier watches an airplane dropping napalm on his position. In the instant before his fiery death, he does not see his life flash before his eyes. Instead, he improvises a novel, one that screams out of him at high speed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his story, Sam wanders a postapocalyptic landscape of broken cities and empty steppes for days, years, centuries. Through a series of blackly comic, dreamlike, bizarre scenes, he gleans lessons imparted by the weird and violent members of his family, including sorceress Aunt Yoanna, doomed Uncle Slutov, and two sharp-shooting cousins who try to persuade him to kill their mother. Sam's clan teaches him how to accept his fate and live in the world of flames with no fear for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe forty-ninth novel in the post-exotic series and the last to appear under the name Antoine Volodine, \u003ci\u003eLiving in Fire\u003c\/i\u003e includes an interview with the writer about this book's place in his overall project, its literary and cinematic influences, and its thematic connections with other works in the sequence. A triumphant conclusion to an epic experiment, \u003ci\u003eLiving in Fire\u003c\/i\u003e cuts through a world aflame using dark humor, flights of fantasy, and radical acceptance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antoine Volodine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517919770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517919771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Antoine Volodine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852749680895,"sku":"9781517919771","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-in-fire-antoine-volodine-9781517919771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}