{"product_id":"9781782270591","title":"The Buddha's Return (Pushkin Collection)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA millionaire is killed. A golden statuette of a Buddha goes missing. A penniless student, who is afflicted by dream-like fits, is arrested and accused of murder.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlipping between the menacing dream world of the student's fevered imagination, and the dark back alleys of the Paris underworld, \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha's Return\u003c\/i\u003e is part detective novel, part philosophical thriller, and part love story.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn typically crisp, unfussy prose, Gazdanov's delicately balanced novel is an irresistibly hypnotic masterpiece from one of Russia's most talented émigré writers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eGaito Gazdanov (1903-1971) joined the White Army aged just sixteen and fought in the Russian Civil War. Exiled in Paris from the 1920s onwards, he eventually became a nocturnal taxi-driver and quickly gained prominence on the literary scene as a novelist, essayist, critic and short-story writer, and was greatly admired by Maxim Gorky, among others. His 1949 novel \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Alexander Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Pushkin Press to great acclaim in 2013. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42893659373643,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":641.75,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0023\/7387\/files\/9781782270591-1.jpg?v=1784027228","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9781782270591","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}