{"product_id":"prussian-nights-bilingual-edition-9780374513917","title":"Prussian Nights: Bilingual Edition","description":"\"The pictorial quality of the whole poem is an eye-opener. There is always a tendency, on the part of his detractors, to make of Solzhenitsyn something less than he is, but here is further evidence that he is something more than even his admirers thought.\" - Clive James, \u003ci\u003e New Statesman \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/b\u003e (1918-2008), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, was serving the Soviet Army in 1945 when he was arrested and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp, later cut short by Khrushchev's reforms. Although permitted to publish \u003ci\u003eOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich\u003c\/i\u003e, Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Writers' Union in 1969. The Western publication of his other novels, particularly \u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e, brought retaliation: in 1974, Solzhenitsyn was stripped of his citizenship and forcibly flown to Frankfurt. In 1991, the Soviet government dismissed treason charges against him, and Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323770540306,"sku":"9780374513917","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9f7606ac-ba09-4acd-a258-56048b90ac02.jpg?v=1727661218","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/prussian-nights-bilingual-edition-9780374513917","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}