{"product_id":"three-books-vladimir-azarov-9781550968491","title":"Three Books: Winter in the Country \/ On \"The Death of Ivan Ilyich\" \/ An Atomic Cake","description":"In the first book, \u003ci\u003eWinter in the Country\u003c\/i\u003e, Azarov imagines the enormous presence of the great poet, Pushkin, and his influence on the development of the modern Russian psyche. In \u003ci\u003eOn \"The Death of Ivan Ilyich\"\u003c\/i\u003e he imagines himself exchanging personalities with Tolstoy's great character, Ivan Ilyich, who suffered and died from a terminal illness. In doing so, he enlarges his own personal experience by giving the death of a close friend a mythic dimension. In the third book, \u003ci\u003e An Atomic Cake\u003c\/i\u003e, he explores a Moscow world of wild contradictions, surreal social hysteria, and periods of massive malaise, all occurring under the cloud of atomic bomb testing. This is when he met a passionate computer specialist whose father had witnessed the American atomic testing at Bikini Atoll. Together, trying to make sense of such a world, they talked, imagining into existence the spirit of Rita Hayworth as she rode on the side of the bomb in her negligée. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vladimir Azarov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550968491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550968491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Exile Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.20h x 5.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Vladimir Azarov","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485612716287,"sku":"9781550968491","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_54afa0ed-df01-44df-b6e6-30f9db7f5b8c.jpg?v=1778050382","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/three-books-vladimir-azarov-9781550968491","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}