{"product_id":"faculty-of-useless-knowledge","title":"Faculty Of Useless Knowledge By Dombrovskii, Iuril","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Year of Terror, 1937. Zybin, an exiled intellectual and archaeologist in the far province of Alma-Ata, finds himself wrongly accused of a crime during the darkest days of Stalin''s reign. Soon, he and his colleagues are caught up in an ambitious Cheka investigator''s attempts to set up a show trial to rival those taking place in Moscow. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVivid, courageous and defiant,\u003ci\u003e The Faculty of Useless Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e is the crowning achievement by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Keeper of Antiquities\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Lady\u003c\/i\u003e and draws heavily on autobiographical experience. First published in Russian in 1978, it is a masterpiece of anti-totalitarian literature, and stands alongside the works of Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov in illuminating the chaos, absurdity and bureaucratic labyrinths of Soviet Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57896515207550,"sku":"NW9781846556982","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781846556982.jpg?v=1787325060","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/faculty-of-useless-knowledge","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}