{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e90","title":"Roach Hole","publish_year":1905,"author":"Aleksandr I. Kuprin","code":"roach-hole","words":2858,"image":"moustache.jpg","image_alt":"A man with a black moustache and beard, and a wide-eyed stare. Graphite filter.","genres":["quirky","literary"],"blurb":"“It is therefore perfectly evident, even to a two year-old infant, that nowadays candles burn four times as fast as a normal candle should.”","description":"The narrator tells of a man from southern Russia who has an opinion on, interest in and even a knack for every facet of life there is. He and the narrator meet over their lives at work, in war and in politics with the zany man only growing more and more eccentric.","original_language":"Russian","rating":4,"translators":["B. Guilbert Guerney"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}