{"product_id":"the-underground-9781632060440","title":"The Underground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the best Russian novels of the 21st Century, \u003ci\u003eThe Underground\u003c\/i\u003e is the unforgettable story of an abandoned mixed-race boy navigating the wondrous and terrifying city of Moscow before the Soviet Union's collapse.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am Moscow's underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town. So begins the story of Mbobo, the precocious 12-year-old narrator of this captivating novel by exiled Uzbek author and BBC journalist Hamid Ismailov. Born to a Siberian woman and an African athlete who came to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mbobo must navigate the complexities of being a fatherless, mixed-raced boy in the shaky terrain of the Soviet Union before its collapse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith echoes of Ralph Ellison's \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Ismailov's novel tackles head-on the problems of race and the relationship between the individual and society in a thoroughly modern context. While paying homage to great Russian authors of the pastDostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Nabokov, and PushkinIsmailov emerges as a master of a new kind of Russian writing that revels in the sordid reality and diversity of the country today. Named one of the best Russian novels of the 21st Century\" (\u003ci\u003eContinent Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Underground\u003c\/i\u003e is a dizzying and moving tour of the Soviet capital, on the surface and beneath, before its colossal fall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515918475607,"sku":"9781632060440","price":15.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-underground-9781632060440","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}