{"product_id":"9781782278726","title":"Lucky Breaks","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Belorusets, Yevgenia, Ostashevsky, Eugene \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 May 2022 by Pushkin Press in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e131 x 196 x 21 | 204g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins of Ukrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. A woman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative; a beautiful florist suddenly disappears, her shop converted into a warehouse for propaganda; hiding out from the shelling, neighbours read horoscopes in the local paper that tell them when it's safe to go outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn stories of linguistic verve and dark, absurdist wit, Yevgenia Belorusets writes of how trauma seeps into the mundane, telling surreal, unsettling tales of survival in a shattered country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925062287619,"sku":"9781782278726","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781782278726_687a022d-a23c-4bdc-b338-8bf39baddc16.jpg?v=1731349320","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781782278726","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}