{"product_id":"monday-starts-on-saturday-paperback","title":"Monday Starts on Saturday - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBoris Strugatsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eArkady Strugatsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Bromfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, who persuade him to come work with them at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy, or NITWiT. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional Institute involve all sorts of magical beings and devices--a wish-granting fish, a talking cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a sofa that translates fairy tales into reality, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a hungry dog-size mosquito--along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and petty bureaucrats. \u003cbr\u003eFirst published in Russia in 1964, \u003ci\u003eMonday Starts on Saturday\u003c\/i\u003e has become the most popular Strugatsky novel in the authors' homeland. Like the works of Gogol and Kafka, it tackles the nature of institutions--here focusing on one devoted to discovering and perfecting human happiness. By turns wildly imaginative, hilarious, and disturbing, \u003ci\u003eMonday Starts on Saturday\u003c\/i\u003e is a comic masterpiece by two of the world's greatest science fiction writers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArkady and Boris Strugatsky\u003c\/b\u003e were famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction, with more than twenty-five novels and novellas to their names, including \u003ci\u003eRoadside Picnic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHard to Be a God\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Doomed City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Inhabited Island\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Snail on the Slope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Mountaineer's Inn\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDefinitely Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e. Their books have been widely translated and made into a number of films. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Bromfield\u003c\/b\u003e has translated into English works by Victor Pelevin, Boris Akunin, Sergei Lukyanenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Daniil Kharms, Leo Tolstoy, and the Strugatsky brothers. \u003cb\u003eAdam Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eI Am Scrooge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJack Glass\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYellow Blue Tibia\u003c\/i\u003e, and other novels. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760351936800,"sku":"9781613739235","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3df00aac10ba631c620c6e592e68222c.webp?v=1780177965","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/monday-starts-on-saturday-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}