{"product_id":"9780571386895","title":"Summer in Baden-Baden (Faber Editions) : 'A miracle' - Susan Sontag","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Tsypkin, Leonid \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 6 June 2024 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Faber Editions' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 130 x 15 | 210g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoin Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic , introduced by Susan Sontag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A wonderful work of art.' Jon McGregor'Extraordinary in its confidence and enchantment.' Chris Power'Addictive, dreamlike and dazzlingly unique.' Adam Thirlwell'Luminous, melancholy and enraptured.' Chloe AridjisWhy was I reading this book now, in a railway-carriage, beneath a wavering, flickering, electric light-bulb . . Summer, 1867: The newlywed Dostoevsky and his young wife Anna - his one-time secretary - are travelling to the German spa resort of Baden-Baden on honeymoon. Their love is ecstatic, yet the author is plagued by demons: haunted by his crimes and punishments, consumed by fevers of jealousy, gambling to avoid mounting debts and shaken by epileptic fits.  Winter, 1970s: Our Jewish narrator embarks on a pilgrimage from Moscow to Leningrad to trace the footsteps of his literary hero. As the train travels across the Soviet Union's bleak expanses, he immerses himself in Anna's travel journal: and their journeys - past and present, real and imagined - soon become entwined.  The result of a clandestine literary vocation, Summer in Baden-Baden was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1981 and first published in a Russian émigré weekly in the USA. It has since been hailed as a trailblazing modern classic, translated into more than twenty languages - and its hypnotic, enigmatic power only grows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48678936871210,"sku":"9780571386895","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9780571386895_8d4959b2-f3c0-47ec-b941-f79fb85cab64.jpg?v=1773925507","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780571386895","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}