{"product_id":"2026200012635-secondhand-another-life-and-the-house-on-the-embankment","title":"Another Life And The House On The Embankment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Remainder mark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the shadowed corridors of Soviet Moscow emerges a master of moral introspection: Yuri Trifonov's Another Life and The House on the Embankment presents two of his most celebrated novellas in a single, compelling volume. Another Life chronicles the quiet grief of a widow reconstructing her marriage through memory, unearthing the compromises and unspoken tensions that defined her life with a historian husband whose ambitions were slowly crushed by the Soviet system. The House on the Embankment transports the reader to a famous Moscow apartment building — home to the Soviet elite — where a man haunted by a act of youthful cowardice confronts the long shadow of betrayal and complicity that has shaped his entire existence.\n\nTrifonov stands as one of the foremost voices of 20th-century Russian prose, a writer who dissected the moral erosions of everyday Soviet life with scalpel-like precision and unflinching honesty. Rendered into fluid, luminous English by translator Michael Glenny, these novellas illustrate how grand historical forces — purges, privilege, political terror — are lived out in the intimate spaces of kitchens, bedrooms, and aging memories. Together, they pose a question that lingers long after the final page: when a system demands compromise, what remains of the self?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130991091931,"sku":"2026200012635-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ad1bb468-fe14-48ee-9fae-366fa27acf53.png?v=1786593815","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012635-secondhand-another-life-and-the-house-on-the-embankment","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}