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Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories

✍ Scribed by Shishkin, Mikhail; Schwartz, Marian; Shtutin, Leo; Maizell, Sylvia

Book ID: 109258050
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Tongue: English
Weight: 472 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781941920022

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✦ Synopsis

The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia's greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia's most prestigious literary awards.

Often included in discussions of Nobel Prize contenders, Shishkin is a master prose writer in the breathtakingly beautiful style of the greatest Russian authors, known for complex, allusive novels about universal and emotional themes. Shishkin's stories read like modern versions of the eternal literature written by his greatest inspirations: Boris Pasternak, Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Bulgakov.

Shishkin's short fiction is the perfect introduction to his breathtaking oeuvre, his stories touch on the same big themes as his novels, spanning discussions of love and loss, death and eternal life, emigration and exile.

Calligraphy Lesson spans Shishkin's entire writing career, including his first published story, the 1993 Debut Prize–winning "Calligraphy...

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