{"product_id":"nadezhda-in-the-dark-9781938603815","title":"Nadezhda in the Dark","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning, novel-in-verse exploration of LGBTQ+ life in the shadow of the former Soviet bloc\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the longest night of a milk-dark Berlin winter, a doomed couple sit side by side on their bed. Both fled the Soviet Union as children, the narrator from Ukraine, and her girlfriend from Russia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe lights are off. Neither speak.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn their silence, a century of Ukrainian and Russian history resurfaces: forgotten literary characters, Yiddish maxims, contraband jokes, LGBT life in the post-Soviet bloc, Jewish diaspora to Israel, beauty vlogs, shaken sanity, hidden messages in Russian pop music, resistance in Odessa, Moscow club raids, and the death of a beloved friend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe requiem inside the narrator’s head circles the question pinned within the darkness: What does it mean to hold onto Nadezhda, whose name means “hope”? And is holding it enough?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yelena Moskovitch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49074055381243,"sku":"9781938603815","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/nadezhda-in-the-dark-9781938603815","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}