Thirteen stories--by the first woman in years to rank among Russia's most important writers--celebrate courage and the will to endure among the people who live on the periphery of society but who dream with a redeeming passion....
By "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life wi...
“Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.” "TimeTatyana Tolstaya’s short stories -- with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and ...
When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nih...
From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years. Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in thi...
In this dazzling collection of stories from one of Russia’s most important writers, ordinary realities -- and our yearnings to transcend them -- lead to miraculous otherworlds. A woman’s deceased father appears in her dreams with clues about the ...