{"product_id":"9781473222281","title":"The Doomed City by Boris Strugatsky","description":"It is a mysterious city whose sun is  switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an  abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its  inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history  at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by  Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. This is life in the Experiment.   Andrei Voronin, a young  astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer  in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage  collector. As increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect  the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating  effect.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204434362546,"sku":"9781473222281","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781473222281.jpg?v=1690640727","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781473222281","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}