{"product_id":"underground","title":"Underground","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eUnderground\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHamid Ismailov\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781632060440\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRestless Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 past-Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Nabokov, and Pushkin-Ismailov 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\/body\u003e","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Underground | Hamid Ismailov | Paperback | 9781632060440 | New | Fiction 1700420","offer_id":48165401723032,"sku":"1700420","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81Gb0sf8AGL.jpg?v=1771922179","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/underground","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}