{"product_id":"solar-plexus-a-baku-saga-in-four-parts-9781782671176","title":"Solar Plexus: A Baku Saga In Four Parts","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the\u003cstrong\u003e Academy award winning screenpla\u003c\/strong\u003ey writer of \u003cstrong\u003eBurnt by the Sun\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSolar Plexus \u003c\/strong\u003eis a compelling saga of family and friendship, love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's rapidly-changing capital, Baku, as the country struggles with the transition into a post-Soviet world...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning three generations and stretching from the 1940s to the 1990s, the four distinct parts that make up \u003cem\u003eSolar Plexus\u003c\/em\u003e intertwine to tell the tale of a group of friends who grew-up around the same courtyard in Baku. Each section is told from a different perspective as the friends' passions, deceits, rivalries and disappointments play out against the shifting turmoil of those decades: from the Great Patriotic War and Stalin's Purges, to the industrial institutes and \u003cem\u003eRussification \u003c\/em\u003eof the '50s and '60s, through to the struggle for independence and violence of the early '90s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lives of Alik, Marat, Lucky, Eldar and Seidzade are realised with rare insight and a superb eye for the bigger picture, but also with humour, and a recognition of life's absurdity that recalls writers from Bulgakov to Kundera. Ibragimbekov evokes a world of passion and honour, of proud men and hot-headed women, of great tenderness and complex humanity, where \"the truth is always just one of many truths.\" The novel is equally a paean to the multiculturalism of Baku, and a time when a person's worth was measured by their qualities, not whether they had been born an Azeri, Russian, Jew or Armenian - a time brought to a violent end by the war with Armenia, when friends and neighbours were suddenly turned against one another, and broad-minded inclusion gave way to an exclusive and crude nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRepresented by Susanna Lea Associates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Glagoslav Publications B.V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781782671176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Rustam Ibragimbekov","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43075550281909,"sku":"9781782671176","price":27.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_645d3bf6-9243-4666-953c-f6c3d22324d3.jpg?v=1691468559","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/solar-plexus-a-baku-saga-in-four-parts-9781782671176","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}