{"product_id":"poor-people-david-petault-9798305037524","title":"Poor People: A New Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey have nothing but words. And words are everything.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMakar Devushkin is a copying clerk living in a corner of a communal apartment, earning barely enough to survive. Across the courtyard lives Varvara Dobroselova, a young woman of respectable birth now fallen into desperate poverty. When Makar begins sending her small gifts and letters, a correspondence begins that will become their lifeline-and their undoing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough their exchanged letters, two souls reveal themselves completely. Makar, aging and anxious, pours out his fears, his small triumphs at the office, his desperate need to maintain dignity in a world designed to strip it away. Varvara shares her past-the seduction that ruined her, the exploitation she endured, the crushing weight of being a woman alone without means or protection. Their bond becomes everything: part friendship, part unspoken love, part mutual dependency in the face of a city and a society that would prefer they simply disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut compassion cannot pay debts. Kindness cannot buy bread. As Makar sacrifices what little he has to support Varvara, he spirals deeper into poverty and humiliation. And when a ghost from her past returns with an offer that promises security at the price of everything else, both must confront what survival actually costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten when Dostoevsky was just twenty-four, \u003ci\u003ePoor People\u003c\/i\u003e announced the arrival of a major literary talent. In this intimate, psychologically penetrating debut, the future author of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e created an unforgettable portrait of lives lived on the margins-not as objects of pity or sociology, but as fully human, achingly real, deserving of dignity even when the world offers none.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome poverty is material. Some poverty is the soul's.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe masterwork that launched one of literature's greatest careers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Petault,Fyodor Dostoevsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798305037524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"David Petault","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083402060031,"sku":"9798305037524","price":10.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poor-people-david-petault-9798305037524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}