{"product_id":"2026200012830-secondhand-the-badgers-a-novel","title":"The Badgers: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the fertile imagination of one of Soviet Russia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Badgers, a searing portrait of a nation tearing itself apart at the seams. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Russian Revolution and its chaotic aftermath, the novel chronicles the lives of two peasant brothers — Semyon and Pavel — whose paths diverge violently as one embraces the new Bolshevik order and the other leads a stubborn peasant uprising in the forests, clinging desperately to a vanishing rural way of life. Leonov constructs a microcosm of a civilisation in upheaval, where the ancient rhythms of the village collide head-on with the iron machinery of revolutionary modernity.\n\nLeonid Leonov, often spoken of in the same breath as Tolstoy and Gorky, writes with a muscular, folkloric intensity that gives The Badgers the weight of myth and the urgency of a political manifesto. The novel stands as a landmark of early Soviet literature, unflinching in its portrayal of moral ambiguity — neither side is entirely heroic, neither entirely villainous — and it is this refusal to offer easy answers that grants it enduring power. Translated into English by Hilda Kazanina and published in 1947, this edition brings Leonov's visceral, landscape-drenched prose to the wider world, leaving the reader to wonder: when a society is reborn in fire, what — and who — is left behind?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203262554331,"sku":"2026200012830-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/27adce07-c5ca-4fe1-95bc-71c3f8bad156.png?v=1788146766","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012830-secondhand-the-badgers-a-novel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}