{"product_id":"a-hero-of-our-time-1","title":"A Hero of Our Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulian Barnes from his preface.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in Russian in April 1840, \u003ci\u003eA Hero of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e reached English in 1853, under the title '\u003ci\u003eSketches of Life in the Caucasus, by a Russe.' \u003c\/i\u003eFull of towering landscapes and local colour, it can be read as the travelogue of a poet and serving officer, but also as a portrait of the romantic as self-destructive anti-hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVladimir Nabokov's translation of\u003ci\u003e A Hero of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e was published in the United States in 1958, the same year as\u003ci\u003e Lolita: \u003c\/i\u003eworld fame was about to overtake this committed Russian living in America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Julian Barnes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48035199221938,"sku":"9781529431216","price":450.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781529431216.jpg?v=1789175174","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/a-hero-of-our-time-1","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}