The Girl with the Teddy Bear

By Viktor Domontovych

The Girl with the Teddy Bear first published in 1928 and sometimes compared with Nabokov's Lolita or A Summer Affair by Ivan Klima was a groundbreaking novel and is now seen as a cult modernist classic.

Ipolit is roasting barley grains to make ersatz coffee in his squalid Kyiv apartment one day in 1922 when he hears a knock at the door. A Red Army soldier he doesn't recognise is stood on his doorstep bringing a breath of the wild air of the Steppe. It turns out to be an old acquaintance whose dream of relaunching a mothballed factory leads Ipolit into an obsessive love affair with a disturbed young girl.
It is as unflinchingly honest as D.H. Lawrence in its depiction of obsessive love and human intimacy and a remarkably courageous debut novel in a totalitarian society

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915568838
• ISBN13: 9781915568830
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Dedalus
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"