Sleepwalker in a Fog - Hardcover
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 will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed to Lora, an incessant talker who dreams of having a fluffy tail. We also read of Natasha, who searches Leningrad and her memory for her lost love; of Dmitry Ilich's elaborate seduction of Olga Mikhailovna; and more. In the tradition of such writers as Gogol and Chekhov, Tatyana Tolstaya transforms ordinary lives into something magical and strange.
Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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From the Back Cover:
"[Tolstaya] carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down." -- Time
Language Notes:
"A gorgeous, intricate, wildly rampaging Russian garden in summer bloom." -- New Republic
"Urgent and hyperreal...[Tolstaya] achieves extraordinary effects." -- The New York Times Book Review
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian
Original Language: Russian
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- PublisherRandom House Value Publishing
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0517328623
- ISBN 13 9780517328620
- BindingHardcover
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