Ken Kalfus

• Sep-1999
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This acclaimed short story collection “veers between whimsical postmodern playfulness and a darker realism [with] sophisticated comic flare” (Publishers Weekly).Distinguished by black comedy and an international perspective, Ken Kalfus’ stories...

• Dec-2000
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The acclaimed short story and novella collection by “a virtuoso of the dismal comedy of Soviet life” -- and the basis for the HBO film PU-239 (The New York Times).Ken Kalfus traverses a century of Russian history in tales that range from hair-rai...

• Jan-2003
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Russia, 1910. Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a remote railway station. Members of the press from around the world have descended upon this sleepy hamlet to record his passing for a public suddenly ravenous for celebrity news. They have been join...

• Jul-2006
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A National Book Award Finalist"The best novel yet about 9/11.... A brilliant new comedy of manners, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country is about the way a conflict takes on a logic and momentum of its own." -- Salon“Savagely hilarious.” -- ElleJ...

• Apr-2013
• / Historical
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It's the late nineteenth century, and British astronomer Sanford Thayer has won international funding for his scheme to excavate an equilateral triangle, three hundred miles to a side, from the remote wastes of Egypt's Western Desert. Nine hundred th...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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"Coup de Foudre" is an explosive collection--the kind of groundbreaking work of literary invention Ken Kalfus’s fans have come to expect. The book is anchored by the provocatively topical title novella that appeared in Harper’s, a sometimes farci...

• May-2022
• / Literary
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As Americans flee widespread civil conflict, one young refugee ekes out a living in a suspenseful, darkly comic novel: “An important writer in every sense.” -- David Foster WallaceAn Esquire “Best Book of Spring 2022” A Literary Hub “Most ...

• Mar-2025
• / General Fiction
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From “one of America’s great living writers” (Jonathan Safran Foer), a prescient, high-stakes novel dissecting the ways we tell stories—privately and publicly—amid radical social change.At his desk one day, prominent Was...