{"product_id":"the-girl-with-the-teddy-bear-9781915568830","title":"The Girl with the Teddy Bear","description":"The \u003ci\u003eGirl with the Teddy Bear\u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1928 and sometimes compared with Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eA Summer Affair\u003c\/i\u003e by Ivan Klima was a groundbreaking novel and is now seen as a cult modernist classic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIpolit is roasting barley grains to make ersatz coffee in his squalid Kyiv apartment one day in 1922 when he hears a knock at the door. A Red Army soldier he doesn't recognise is stood on his doorstep bringing a breath of the wild air of the Steppe. It turns out to be an old acquaintance whose dream of relaunching a mothballed factory leads Ipolit into an obsessive love affair with a disturbed young girl. \u003cbr\u003eIt is as unflinchingly honest as D.H. Lawrence in its depiction of obsessive love and human intimacy and a remarkably courageous debut novel in a totalitarian society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDomontovych, Viktor:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eViktor Domontovych\u003c\/b\u003e was a pen name used by Viktor Petrov (1894-1969) an enigmatic Ukrainian scientist, author and possible Soviet spy. \u003cbr\u003eHis work conveys the difficulty of human intimacy in a Ukraine occupied by the totalitarian soviet state and indeed the problematic nature of human love.","brand":"Dedalus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127671746834,"sku":"9781915568830","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1eb948a2-b74c-4f87-b423-860c1e14a02a.jpg?v=1773742274","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-girl-with-the-teddy-bear-9781915568830","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}