{"product_id":"pu-239-and-other-russian-fantasies","title":"Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies","description":"289 pp. Ken Kalfus plucks individual lives from the stew of a century of Russian history and serves them up in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous.  The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he hawks a most unusual package on the black market. In \"Orbit,\" the first cosmonaut navigates several unexpected items as he prepares to blaze the trail for the new communist society. In \"Budyonnovsk,\" a young man hopes desperately that the takeover of his town by Chechen rebels will save his marriage. Set in the 1920s, \"Birobidzhan\" is the bittersweet story of a Jewish couple journeying to the Soviet Far East. The novella, \"Peredelkino,\" which closes the book, traces the fortunes of a 1960s literary apparatchik whose romantic intrigues become political.  Together, these works of fiction capture the famously enigmatic Russian psyche. PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies is a book that offers a moving and kaleidoscopic portrait of the Russian people through a century of turbulent history.","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50702669905990,"sku":"2354954","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/pu-239-and-other-russian-fantasies","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}