The Russian Dreambook Of Color And Flight: Literary Short Stories of Unforgettable Women Finding Love, Dreams, and Art

Ochsner, Gina

ISBN 10: 0547394551 / ISBN 13: 9780547394558

Published by Harper Perennial, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Russian Dreambook Of Color And Flight: Literary Short Stories of Unforgettable Women Finding Love, Dreams, and Art
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547394551
• ISBN 13: 9780547394558
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there’s a ghost who won’t keep quiet.

Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to heckle the living: his wife, Azade; Olga, a disillusioned translator/censor for a military newspaper; Yuri, an army veteran who always wears an aviator’s helmet; and Tanya, a student of hope, words, and color.

Tanya carries a notebook wherever she goes, recording her dreams of finding love and escaping her job at the All-Russia All-Cosmopolitan Museum, a place that holds a fantastic and terrible collection of art knockoffs created with the materials at hand, from foam to chewing gum, Popsicle sticks to tomato juice. When the museum’s director hears of an American group seeking to fund art in Russia, it looks as if Tanya might get her chance at a better life, if she can only convince them of the collection’s worth. Enlisting the help of her neighbors, Tanya scrambles to save her dreams, and along the way discovers that love may have been waiting in her own courtyard all along.

About the Author

GINA OCHSNER is the author of two collections of short stories, People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, both of which won the Oregon Book Award, and a novel, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is a recipient of the Flannery O’Connor Award, the William Faulkner Prize, an NEA grant, a Guggenheim, and the Raymond Carver Prize. She lives in Oregon.