{"product_id":"once-upon-the-river-love-9781611458060","title":"Once Upon the River Love","description":"In the immense virgin pine forests of Siberia, where the snows of winter are vast and endless, sits the little village of Svetlaya. Once, the village had been larger, more prosperous, but time and the pendulum of history had reduced it by the 1970s to no more than a cluster of izbas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut for three young men--the handsome young Alyosha, the crippled Utkin, and the older, dashing Samurai--little is needed to construct their own special universe. Despite the harshness of the environment and their meager resources, the three adolescents form a tight band of friendship and dream of another life, a world of passion and love. And when they learn one day that a Western film is being shown in the closest real city, they trek for hours on snowshoes to see it. Through that film, the boys' lives are changed forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten from the perspective of twenty years after these youthful events, \u003ci\u003eOnce Upon the River Love\u003c\/i\u003e follows the destinies of these three young idealists up to the present day, to the boardwalks of Brighton Beach and the jungles of Central America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the same mastery of plot and prose that marked the author's\u003ci\u003e Dreams of My Russian Summers\u003c\/i\u003e, this novel demonstrates Makine's remarkable ability to recreate the past with such precision and beauty that the present becomes all the more poignant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611458060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Andre\u0026#195;\u0026#175; Makine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44608332726453,"sku":"9781611458060","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6c9f71e4-4bdb-47b2-a40c-36bd47d953e6.jpg?v=1725374240","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/once-upon-the-river-love-9781611458060","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}