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Item Details
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RUSSIAN STORIES
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| By: |
Francesc Seres, Peter Bush (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857051598 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857051592 |
| Publisher: |
QUERCUS PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
4 July, 2013 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Translated from: |
Catalan |
| Description: |
The ridiculous is rendered sublime in Francesc Seres' collection of twenty-one impish and outrageous stories by five imaginary Russian writers. |
| Synopsis: |
Drift through outer space with a doomed cosmonaut whose engine is 'kaput!'; return to an irradiated village with an elderly couple who want to go home; ask yourself, did Elvis really play a concert in Red Square? Twenty-one impish and irrepressible stories by five neglected or forgotten Russian writers. Fresh-faced vignettes from modern St Petersburg; hair-raising tales of state insanity, snatched from the Soviet archives; dark fables from the days of serfdom, when the land was untamed and life was brutish and short. Each mines a discrete facet of Russian life, history or culture, and taken as a whole they sketch a historical arc from the nineteenth century to the age of the budget airline, offering the reader a unique combination of daring, wit, dash and charm. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
MacLehose Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Premio Ciudad de Barcelona: Literatura en lengua catalana 2010 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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