{"product_id":"mesopotamia","title":"Mesopotamia","description":"\u003cp\u003eA leader among Ukrainian post-independence authors, Zhadan employs both prose and poetry to address the disillusionment, complications, and complexities that have marked Ukrainian life in the decades following the Soviet Union's collapse. His novel provides an extraordinary depiction of the lives of working-class Ukrainians struggling against an implacable fate: the road forward seems blocked at every turn by demagogic forces and remnants of the Russian past. Zhadan's nine interconnected stories and accompanying poems are set in a city both representative and unusual, and his characters are simultaneously familiar and strange.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFollowing a kind of magical-realist logic, his stories expose the grit and burden of stalled lives, the universal desire for intimacy, and a wistful realization of the off-kilter and even perverse nature of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e Published: USA, 2018\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003eLanguages: English \u003cbr\u003e Pages: 328\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9780300223354\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 0300223358\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Serhiy Zhadan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44602955137290,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780374538613_5b74ffb8-fb70-42fb-91df-effe21a98305.jpg?v=1686833519","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/mesopotamia","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}