{"product_id":"9781938603518","title":"Nadezhda in the Dark","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning, novel-in-verse exploration of LGBTQ+ life in the shadow of the former Soviet bloc\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the longest night of a milk-dark Berlin winter, a doomed couple sit side by side on their bed. Both fled the Soviet Union as children, the narrator from Ukraine, and her girlfriend from Russia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe lights are off. Neither speak.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn their silence, a century of Ukrainian and Russian history resurfaces: forgotten literary characters, Yiddish maxims, contraband jokes, LGBT life in the post-Soviet bloc, Jewish diaspora to Israel, beauty vlogs, shaken sanity, hidden messages in Russian pop music, resistance in Odessa, Moscow club raids, and the death of a beloved friend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe requiem inside the narrator’s head circles the question pinned within the darkness: What does it mean to hold onto Nadezhda, whose name means “hope”? And is holding it enough?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yelena Moskovitch","offers":[{"title":"Dzanc Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-01-23","offer_id":47353610895615,"sku":"9781938603518","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_47cd722a-83c3-4f68-9ff6-b66f396549bf.jpg?v=1760541788","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781938603518","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}