Russian Stories

(Paperback)

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Drift through outer space with a doomed cosmonaut whose engine is 'kaput!'; return to an irradiated village with an elderly couple who want to go home; ask yourself, did Elvis really play a concert in Red Square

Twenty-one impish and irrepressible stories by five neglected or forgotten Russian writers. Fresh-faced vignettes from modern St Petersburg; hair-raising tales of state insanity, snatched from the Soviet archives; dark fables from the days of serfdom, when the land was untamed and life was brutish and short.

Each mines a discrete facet of Russian life, history or culture, and taken as a whole they sketch a historical arc from the nineteenth century to the age of the budget airline, offering the reader a unique combination of daring, wit, dash and charm.

Reviews

'A restless and indefatigable writer who reinvents himself with each book' Vinenc Pages, El Peridico de Catalunya. * Vinenc Pages, El Peridico de Catalunya *
'A work that belongs to the highest literature' Xavier Pla, AVUI. * AVUI *

Author Bio

Francesc Seres is a Catalan writer, born in Saidi, Aragon in 1972. He studied Fine Arts and Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona and now works as a professor of art history. His novels, short stories and plays have been translated into Spanish and other European languages.