{"product_id":"an-evening-with-claire-paperback","title":"An Evening with Claire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGaito Gazdanov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBryan Karetnyk\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimed modernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Alexander Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo old friends meet nightly in Paris, trading conversational barbs and manoeuvring around submerged feelings. Throughout the ten years of their separation, thoughts of Claire lingered persistently in Kolya's mind. As the imagined romance finally becomes real, Kolya is thrown into recollections of formative moments from his youth in Russia, from his solitary early years through military school and service in the White Army in the Civil War, all leading to this union with Claire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first novel by the celebrated Russian master Gaito Gazdanov, \u003ci\u003eAn Evening with Claire\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical, finely crafted portrait of a lost innocence and a vanished era.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGaito Gazdanov (1903-1971) joined the White Army aged just sixteen and fought in the Russian Civil War. Exiled in Paris from the 1920s onwards, he eventually became a nocturnal taxi-driver and quickly gained prominence on the literary scene as a novelist, essayist, critic and short-story writer, and was greatly admired by Maxim Gorky, among others. \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Alexander Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Pushkin Press to great acclaim in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 6.5 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769160499488,"sku":"9781782276050","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/151de76a8dc93428ccd272b4b70157de.webp?v=1780343096","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/an-evening-with-claire-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}