{"product_id":"maidenhair-mikhail-shishkin-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 his-tory 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 timeless-ness, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mikhail Shishkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934824364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934824368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.57w x 1.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Best Translated Book Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/20\/2012 pg. 34","brand":"Mikhail Shishkin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978830610687,"sku":"9781934824368","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f669d365-c15c-4a29-b025-7def9775701a.jpg?v=1683243196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maidenhair-mikhail-shishkin-9781934824368","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}