{"product_id":"summer-in-baden-baden","title":"Summer in Baden-Baden","description":"\u003cp\u003eSummer, 1867: The newlywed Dostoevsky and his young wife Anna - his one-time secretary - are travelling to the German spa resort of Baden-Baden on honeymoon. Their love is ecstatic, yet the author is plagued by demons: haunted by his crimes and punishments, consumed by fevers of jealousy, gambling to avoid mounting debts and shaken by epileptic fits.\u003cbr\u003eWinter, 1970s: Our Jewish narrator embarks on a pilgrimage from Moscow to Leningrad to trace the footsteps of his literary hero. As the train travels across the Soviet Union's bleak expanses, he immerses himself in Anna's travel journal: and their journeys - past and present, real and imagined - soon become entwined. The result of a clandestine literary vocation, \u003cem\u003eSummer in Baden-Baden \u003c\/em\u003ewas smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1981 and first published in a Russian émigré weekly in the USA. It has since been hailed as a trailblazing modern classic, translated into more than twenty languages - and its hypnotic, enigmatic power only grows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 057138689X\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780571386895\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leonid Tsypkin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50290436997386,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780571386895.jpg?v=1731837157","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/summer-in-baden-baden","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}