{"product_id":"2026100006856-secondhand-hope-against-hope-hope-abandoned-two-volume-set","title":"Hope Against Hope + Hope Abandoned (Two-Volume Set)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: Vol I (repr.); Vol II (1st ed.,)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Vol II - slight bruising to board edges. Otherwise, both vols. in good condition, clean texts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hope Against Hope\" and \"Hope Abandoned\" together form one of the twentieth century's towering works of memoir and witness, in which Nadezhda Mandelstam chronicles her life with the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam under Stalin's terror, recounting in the first volume his arrests in 1934 and 1938 and his death in a Siberian transit camp, while the second volume reaches back to their first meeting in 1919 and extends forward through her own decades of clandestine survival, preserving his manuscripts from memory, and offers searingly candid portraits of contemporaries including Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Nikolai Bukharin, the whole constituting both an indictment of Soviet totalitarianism and a profound testament to the power of poetry and human dignity to endure catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887833788635,"sku":"2026100006856-SECONDHAND","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/58939d05-f6c6-4b73-b9ad-06564c4bbd58.png?v=1781746817","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100006856-secondhand-hope-against-hope-hope-abandoned-two-volume-set","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}