{"product_id":"nine-rabbits-virginia-zaharieva-9781936787135","title":"Nine Rabbits","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Zaharieva packs several genres into one, including but not limited to pastoral idyll, sexual coming-of-age story, and feminist memoir. Ultimately, she presents life in all its messiness and possibility, vivid enough for the reader to almost taste.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is powerful, controlled writing.\"--\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI turned up in the seaside town of Nesebar--an inconvenient four-year-old grandchild, just as my grandmother was raising the last two of her six children, putting the finishing touches on the house, ordering the workmen around and doing some of the construction work herself--thank God for that, because at least it used up some of her monstrous energy. Otherwise who knows what would've become of me.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Bulgaria during the height of communism in the 1960s, six-year-old Manda survives her cruel grandmother and rural poverty by finding sheer delight in the world--plump vegetables, garden gnomes, and darkened attic corners. The young Manda endures severe beatings, seemingly indestructible. But as a middle-aged artist in newly democratic Bulgaria, she desperately tries to feed her damaged soul with intrepid creativity and humor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Virginia Zaharieva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 193678713X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936787135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/09\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2014","brand":"Virginia Zaharieva","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937615053055,"sku":"9781936787135","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7d57183a-12e4-4824-bfad-72c4f892d4e2.jpg?v=1681431077","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nine-rabbits-virginia-zaharieva-9781936787135","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}