{"product_id":"word-for-word-a-memoir-9781468307320","title":"Word for Word: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA child of the 1920s  Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege  spending her childhood in Germany  France  and Palestine. But when her parents moved to the USSR when she was thirteen  Lungina became witness to many of the eras greatest upheavals. Exiled during World War II  dragged to KGB headquarters to report on her cosmopolitan friends  and subjected to her new countrys ruthless  systematic anti-Semitism  Lungina nonetheless carved out a remarkable career as a translator who introduced hundreds of thousands of Soviet readers to Knut Hamsun  August Strindberg  and  most famously  Astrid Lindgren. In the process  she found herself at the very center of Soviet cultural life  meeting and befriending Pasternak  Brodsky  Solzhenitsyn  and many other major figures of the eras literature. Her extraordinary memoirat once heartfelt and unsentimentalis an unparalleled tribute to a lost world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67904776142901,"sku":"ByrdShop_1468307320","price":38.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781468307320.jpg?v=1793852215","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/word-for-word-a-memoir-9781468307320","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}