{"product_id":"a-terrible-country-by-keith-gessen-9781910695760","title":"A Terrible Country","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves from New York to Moscow to look after his ageing grandmother, a woman who survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia's violent capitalist transformation. She welcomes Andrei into her home, even if she can't always remember who he is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAndrei learns to navigate Putin's Moscow, still the city of his birth, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly—but surprisingly sharp!—grandmother, finds a place to play hockey, a café to send emails, and eventually some friends, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCapturing with a miniaturist's brush the unfolding demands of family, fortune, personal ambition, ideology, and desire, \u003ci\u003eA Terrible Country\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling novel about ageing, radical politics, Russia at a crossroads, and the difficulty—or impossibility—of actually changing one's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Terrible Country\u003c\/i\u003e is even better than I hoped. By turns sad, funny, bewildering, revelatory, and then sad again, it ... unites the personal and political as only the best novels do.' - Elif Batuman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072433373420,"sku":"9781910695760","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7711883482868.jpg?v=1765108664","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/a-terrible-country-by-keith-gessen-9781910695760","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}