The Girl with the Teddy Bear (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781915568830)

The Girl with the Teddy Bear first published in 1928 and sometimes compared with Nabokov's Lolita or A Summer Affair by Ivan Klima was a groundbreaking novel and is now seen as a cult modernist classic.

Ipolit is roasting barley grains to make ersatz coffee in his squalid Kyiv apartment one day in 1922 when he hears a knock at the door. A Red Army soldier he doesn't recognise is stood on his doorstep bringing a breath of the wild air of the Steppe. It turns out to be an old acquaintance whose dream of relaunching a mothballed factory leads Ipolit into an obsessive love affair with a disturbed young girl.
It is as unflinchingly honest as D.H. Lawrence in its depiction of obsessive love and human intimacy and a remarkably courageous debut novel in a totalitarian society

Author: Viktor Domontovych
ISBN-10: 1915568838
ISBN-13: 9781915568830
Publisher: Dedalus
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2026
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.12w x 1.00d