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Dmitry Bakin's collection of seven stories recall folktales and the Bible in their primal power, but his taut, unsparing style is uniquely his own. In a world of permanent upheaval, his characters - an orphan who appears in a village at the end of World War II, a man who builds his house around where he sleeps, two young military recruits hypnotized by their animosity - are searching for security, freedom, or certainty against all odds. Set in the Russian countryside, this is the first collection by the 36-year-old Bakin translated into English.

"One feature which distinguishes Dmitry Bakin's prose...is its unusually clear-sighted and unhysterical treatment of delusion and other classic themes of Russian literature....The necessary antidote to the bleakness of Bakin's philosophical outlook is the pleasure given by the varied registers of the prose, which is richly textured and sensitively modulated to bring out individual character....REASONS FOR LIVING is a remarkable book, not least for being the debut of an apparently fully developed writer."

Oliver Ready, Times Literary Supplement, 09/20/2002

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