{"product_id":"doppelganger-paperback","title":"Doppelgänger - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDasa Drndic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eS. D. Curtis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eCelia Hawkesworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year's Eve. Details of the lives of Artur, a retired Yugoslav army captain, and Isabella, a Holocaust survivor, are revealed through police dossiers. As they fight loneliness and aging, they take comfort in small things: for Artur, a collection of 274 hats; for Isabella, a family of garden gnomes who live in her apartment. Later, we meet the ill-fated Pupi, who dreamed of becoming a sculptor but instead became a chemist and then a spy. As Eileen Battersby wrote, \"As he stands, in the zoo, gazing at a pair of rhinos, in a city most likely present-day Belgrade, this battered Everyman feels very alone: 'I would like to tell someone, anyone, I'd like to tell someone: I buried Mother today.'\" Pupi sets out to correct his family's crimes by returning silverware to its original Jewish owners through the help of an unlikely friend, a pawnbroker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Dasa Drndic as \"my ugly little book,\" \u003cem\u003eDoppelgänger\u003c\/em\u003e was her personal favorite. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757738459424,"sku":"9780811228916","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a57c38b599ab05dd950f4ab55ff666f6.webp?v=1780110553","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/doppelganger-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}