{"product_id":"9781771666596","title":"In Memory of Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Awards: Translated Literature \u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2018 Bolshaya Kniga Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2019 NOS Literature Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, \u003ci\u003eIn Memory of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities, offering an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"River Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Book*hug Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2021-03-02","offer_id":44151032807679,"sku":"9781771666596","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_9c35c651-2003-4695-b691-f5d610d78317.jpg?v=1696664464","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781771666596","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}