{"product_id":"the-house-of-the-dead","title":"The House of the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he describes his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, his strange 'family' of boastful, cruel convicts. Yet this is far more than a work of documentary realism; it is also a powerful novel of redemption, exploring one man's spiritual death and the miracle of his reawakening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited with an Introduction and Notes by David McDuff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 368 pages | Published September 1985\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63997016506717,"sku":"9780140444568","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780140444568.jpg?v=1774584120","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-house-of-the-dead","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}