{"product_id":"fathers-and-children-paperback","title":"Fathers and Children - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIvan Turgenev\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNicolas Pasternak Slater\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eMaya Slater\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 19th-century Russian masterpiece about love, politics, family, and the tension between the new generation and the old world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIvan Turgenev's \u003ci\u003eFathers and Children\u003c\/i\u003e is a book full to bursting with life, both comic and tragic. At the heart of this novel about love, politics, and society, strong beliefs and heated disagreements, illness and death, is the generational divide between the young and the old. When the young university graduate Arkady and his mentor, the nihilist Bazarov, leave St. Petersburg to visit their aging parents in the provinces, the conflict that ensues from the generations' clashing views of the world--the youths' radicalism and the parents' liberalism--is both representative of nineteenth-century Russia and recognizably contemporary. At the time of its publication in 1862, the book aroused indignation in critics who felt betrayed by Turgenev's refusal to let his novel serve a single ideology; it also received a spirited defense by those who saw in his diffuse sympathies a greater service to art and to humanity. In this fresh new translation Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater have captured Turgenev's subtle humor, his pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, his compassion, and, above all, his skill as a storyteller\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIvan Sergeyevich Turgenev\u003c\/b\u003e (1818-1883) was born into a wealthy family of the Russian landed gentry and educated in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. He made his name as a writer with \u003ci\u003eA Sportsman's Sketches, \u003c\/i\u003e an unvarnished picture of Russian country life that is said to have influenced Tsar Alexander II's decision to liberate the serfs. In later years, Turgenev lived in Europe, returning only rarely to his native country. He was the author of poems, stories, plays, and six novels, the most celebrated of which include \u003ci\u003eFathers and Children, Rudin, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVirgin Soil\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn the Eve.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicolas Pasternak Slater\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of Russian literature. He has translated work by Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Teffi, his uncle Boris Pasternak, and many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaya Slater\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eMr. Darcy's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e and a senior research fellow at Queen Mary University of London. She was a lecturer on French literature at London University for more than three decades.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766737076512,"sku":"9781681376356","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fb324608a0853204d12aec5570a565e1.webp?v=1780297893","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fathers-and-children-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}