{"product_id":"doppelganger","title":"Doppelganger","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDoppelganger\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDaša Drndic\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811228916\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2019\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\u003e160\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year's Eve. Details of the lives of Artur, a retired Yugoslav army captain, and Isabella, a Holocaust survivor, are revealed through police dossiers. As they fight loneliness and aging, they take comfort in small things: for Artur, a collection of 274 hats; for Isabella, a family of garden gnomes who live in her apartment. Later, we meet the ill-fated Pupi, who dreamed of becoming a sculptor but instead became a chemist and then a spy. As Eileen Battersby wrote, \"As he stands, in the zoo, gazing at a pair of rhinos, in a city most likely present-day Belgrade, this battered Everyman feels very alone: 'I would like to tell someone, anyone, I'd like to tell someone: I buried Mother today.'\" Pupi sets out to correct his family's crimes by returning silverware to its original Jewish owners through the help of an unlikely friend, a pawnbroker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Dasa Drndic as \"my ugly little book,\" \u003cem\u003eDoppelgänger\u003c\/em\u003e was her personal favorite. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Doppelganger | Daša Drndic | Paperback | 9780811228916 | New | Fiction 1210801","offer_id":50550518612226,"sku":"1210801","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51AELtZx91L.jpg?v=1790467735","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/doppelganger","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}