{"product_id":"9781782276050","title":"An Evening with Claire","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Gazdanov, Gaito (Author) \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 24 June 2021 by Pushkin Press in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Pushkin Collection' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e122 x 164 x 21 | 206g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo old friends meet nightly in Paris, after a separation of ten years. Trading conversational barbs and manoeuvring around submerged feelings, Claire and Kolya resume what fate interrupted. When their long-imagined romance at last becomes reality, Kolya is engulfed by memories of Russia, from a tragic and solitary childhood to the disorienting ordeal of civil war. As his haunting recollection takes shape, so too does a portrait of lost youth set against the trauma of a vanished homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten when Gazdanov was just twenty-six, An Evening with Claire is the celebrated Russian master's debut novel. Melancholic and lyrical, it is a powerful distillation of the quintessential émigré experience: caught between two worlds, belonging to neither.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491118891394,"sku":"9781782276050","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9781782276050.jpg?v=1753740059","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9781782276050","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}