{"product_id":"someone-elses-life-elena-dolgopyat-9781804840191","title":"Someone Else's Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElena Dolgopyat\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised in the \u003cstrong\u003eUSSR\u003c\/strong\u003e, trained as a computer programmer in a \u003cstrong\u003eSoviet military facility\u003c\/strong\u003e, and retrained as a cinematographer post-perestroika. Fusing her diverse experiences with her own sensitivities and preoccupations, and weaving throughout a colourful thread of magic realism, she has produced an unsettling group of fifteen stories all concerned in some way with the theme of estrangement. Elena herself, in an interview given at the time of the book's launch, said, \"Into each of these stories is woven the motif that one's life is 'alien'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is as if you are separate from your own life and someone else is living it. You feel either that your own life is 'other', or you experience a yearning for a life you have not led, an envy for some other life.\" In his introduction to the collection, Leonid Yuzefovich writes, \"Each of Elena Dolgopyat's stories ... painfully stirs the soul with a sense of the fragility, the evanescence, even, of human existence ... in her quiet voice, she is telling us of \"the multicoloured underside of life\". She is telling us of things that matter to us all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elena Dolgopyat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 180484019X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781804840191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Glagoslav Publications B.V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Elena Dolgopyat","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44540461318399,"sku":"9781804840191","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f416f2de-05d0-410c-82be-b0c8833ec3fa.jpg?v=1700588032","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/someone-elses-life-elena-dolgopyat-9781804840191","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}