{"product_id":"back-to-moscow-9781250131836","title":"Back to Moscow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"THE RARE NOVEL . . . A GENUINE EPIPHANY, WHOLLY EARNED AND WHOLLY UNEXPECTED. WITH ITS FINAL GESTURE, THE STORY REVEALS ITS TRUE SHAPE. IT'S AN ACT OF MAGIC, SUCH A REVELATION, AND ONE THAT I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT.\"--KEVIN BROCKMEIER, AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE ILLUMINATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTuesday night: vodka and dancing. Wednesday morning: posing as an expert on Pushkin at the university. Thursday night: chasing girls and more vodka. Friday morning: a hungover tour of Gorky's house. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartin, a young doctoral student of literature, comes to Moscow hoping to discover the country of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and his beloved Chekhov. Instead, he finds a city turned on its head, where the grimmest vestiges of Soviet life exist side by side with the nonstop hedonism of the newly rich. Along with his hard-living expat friends, Martin spends less time on his studies, pursuing instead the Mysterious Russian Soul in the city's unhinged nightlife scene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn quick-witted prose recalling the neurotic openheartedness of Ben Lerner and the whiskey-sour satire of Bret Easton Ellis, \u003ci\u003eBack to Moscow\u003c\/i\u003e weaves an enthralling coming-of-age tale of debauchery and discovery carved from the corpse of the former USSR--an unforgettable and complexly crafted portrait of a chaotic metropolis storming into the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGUILLERMO ERADES\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBack to Moscow\u003c\/i\u003e. He was born in Malaga, Spain and has lived in Leeds, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Moscow, Berlin, Baghdad, and Brussels, where he is currently based.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873209880850,"sku":"9781250131836","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_85c78a65-33d2-4ec0-8965-29ef0a1c1e7e.jpg?v=1737923940","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/back-to-moscow-9781250131836","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}