{"product_id":"homeward-from-heaven-9780231199308","title":"Homeward from Heaven","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomeward from Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, it recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Poplavsky] was, after all, the first hippy, the original flower child. -- Vladimir Nabokov\u003cbr\u003eIn the work of Boris Poplavsky, spiritual quests founder on the jagged shoals of daily existence, a dreadful world-weariness is fused with the restless energy of youth. Only a translator as sensitive and as versatile as Bryan Karetnyk could have re-created the alarming, electrifying effect of \u003ci\u003eHomeward from Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e. Open the pages and feel the current beneath your fingers. -- Boris Dralyuk, translator of Isaac Babel, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and others\u003cbr\u003eFor Boris Poplavsky’s autobiographical hero—a rebellious decadent refugee in Paris of the 1930s—the fallout from catastrophic love affairs, described with graphic boldness, exuberance, and malicious joy, is indistinguishable from the trauma of exile from Russia. This is not a novel about exile. This is a unique verbal incarnation of the exiled spirit. -- Zinovy Zinik, author of \u003ci\u003eHistory Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis compelling novel, translated with literary flair, opens a fresh window on Russian literature beyond its well-known classics. \u003ci\u003eHomeward from Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e seamlessly blends Russian sensibilities with European modernity and Eastern spirituality. Saturated with mystical insights and intense passion, Poplavsky’s lyrical prose celebrates the evanescent beauty of every human experience. -- Maria Rubins, author of \u003ci\u003eRussian Montparnasse: Transnational Writing in Interwar Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is compelling reading, with some beautifully lyrical writing, stream-of-consciousness prose sections and a most marvellous sense of place. -- Karen Langley * Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings *\u003cbr\u003eNearly a century after the novel’s composition, another wave of displacement from the former Russian empire demonstrates that Poplavsky’s tragic surrealist visions were all too real. With its forlorn peregrinations and portraits of lost exiles, \u003ci\u003eHomeward from Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is very much a book for these times. -- José Vergara * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eThis impressive version of \u003ci\u003eHomewards from Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is an important addition to the body of Russian émigré writing available in English. -- Peter France * Translation and Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, by Bryan Karetnyk\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003eHomeward from Heaven\u003cbr\u003eNotes","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090661830999,"sku":"9780231199308","price":52.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231199308.jpg?v=1762272977","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/homeward-from-heaven-9780231199308","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}