{"product_id":"summer-in-baden-baden","title":"Summer In Baden Baden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoin \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDostoevsky \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eon his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic , introduced by Susan Sontag.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A wonderful work of art.'' \u003cb\u003eJon McGregor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003eExtraordinary in its confidence and enchantment.'' \u003cb\u003eChris Power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Addictive, dreamlike and dazzlingly unique.'' \u003cb\u003eAdam Thirlwell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Luminous, melancholy and enraptured.'' \u003cb\u003eChloe Aridjis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy was I reading this book \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003enow\u003ci\u003e, in a railway-carriage, beneath a wavering, flickering, electric light-bulb . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummer, 1867:\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinter, 1970s:\u003c\/b\u003e 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result of a clandestine literary vocation, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer in Baden-Baden\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\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 - \u003cb\u003eand its hypnotic, enigmatic power only grows.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400615240062,"sku":"NW9780571386895","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571386895.jpg?v=1778608595","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/summer-in-baden-baden","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}