Rasskazy: new fiction from a new Russia
β Scribed by Parker, Jeff, Iossel, Mikhail, Prose, Francine
- Publisher
- Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, Tin House Books
- Year
- 2010;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 262 KB
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0982504810
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β¦ Synopsis
Foreword / Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker -- Introduction / Francine Prose -- They talk / Linor Goralik -- A potential customer / Ilya Kochergin -- Bregovich's sixth journery / Oleg Zobern -- Have mercy, your majesty fish / Olga Zondberg -- History / Roman Senchin -- Drill and song day / Vladimir Kozlov -- Richeva / Nikolai Epikhin -- Nuclear spring / Evgeni Aloykhin -- The diesel stop / Arkady Babchenko -- Why the sky doesn't fall / German Sadulaev -- More elderly person / Dmitry Danilov -- The Pleshcheyev Lake monster / Marianna Geide -- Spit / Kirill Ryabov -- The unbelievable and tragic hisory of Misha Shtrikov and his cruel wife / Vadim Kalinin -- Between summer and fall / Maria Kamenetskaya -- Russian Halloween / Alexander Bezzubtsev-Kondakov -- It all depends on who you believe / Maria Boteva -- Rules / Anna Starobinets -- The seventh toast to snails / Ekaterina Taratuta -- D.O.B. / Alexander Snegirev -- The killer and his little friend / Zakhar Prilepin -- One year in paradise / Natalya Klyuchareva.;Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-three depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time. "What's new is the rhythm and snap of the hip, modern, contemporary voices that we would expect to hear rattling into a cell phone in the booth next to ours.
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