{"product_id":"the-big-green-tent-a-novel-9780374166670","title":"The Big Green Tent: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Big Green Tent epitomizes what we think of when we imagine the classic Russian novel. With epic breadth and intimate detail  Ludmila Ulitskayas remarkable work tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism  folly  compromise  and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three boysan orphaned poet; a gifted  fragile pianist; and a budding photographer with a talent for collecting secretsstruggle to reach adulthood in a society where their heroes have been censored and exiled. Rich with love stories  intrigue  and a cast of dissenters and spies  The Big Green Tent offers a panoramic survey of life after Stalin and a dramatic investigation into the prospects for individual integrity in a society defined by the KGB. Each of the central characters seeks to transcend an oppressive regime through art  a love of Russian literature  and activism. And each of them ends up face-to-face with a secret police that is highly skilled at fomenting paranoia  division  and self-betrayal. A man and his wife each become collaborators  without the other knowing; an artist is chased into the woods  where he remains in hiding for four years; a researcher is forced to deem a patient insane  damning him to torture in a psychiatric ward. Ludmila Ulitskayas novel belongs to the tradition of Dostoevsky  Tolstoy  and Pasternak: it is a work consumed with politics  love  and beliefand a revelation of life in dark times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67908236705845,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374166676","price":101.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374166670.jpg?v=1794039598","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-big-green-tent-a-novel-9780374166670","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}