{"product_id":"a-present-past-titan-and-other-chronicles-paperback","title":"A Present Past: Titan and Other Chronicles - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSergei Lebedev\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAntonina W. Bouis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A tour de force--exquisite and gripping.\"--\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Sands, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEast West Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them more movingly than Russian author Sergei Lebedev, who in this stunning volume probes a collective guilty conscience marked by otherworldliness and the denial of misdeeds. These eleven tales share a mystical topography in which the legacy of totalitarian regimes is ever-present--from Katyn to Chechnya, from Lithuanian KGB documents to the streetscape of unified Berlin, from the fragments of family history to the echoes of foot soldiers in Russia's wars of aggression. In these stories, as in Lebedev's acclaimed novels, the voices of things, places, animals, and people seek justice for a restless past, where steel claws scrape just beneath the surface and where the heredity of evil is uninterrupted, unacknowledged, unnamed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSergei Lebedev\u003c\/b\u003e has been called the most important younger Russian author writing today. His novels have been translated into many languages and four of his works--\u003ci\u003eUntraceable\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Comet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Goose Fritz\u003c\/i\u003e--have been published in English by New Vessel Press to great acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonina W. Bouis\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the leading translators of Russian literature now at work. She has translated over eighty works from authors such as Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Andrei Sakharov. Bouis, previously executive director of the Soros Foundation in the former USSR, now lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772504113440,"sku":"9781954404182","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ca802a55aa77a5863a34e561ac6974c5.webp?v=1780407218","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-present-past-titan-and-other-chronicles-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}