Author: Katherine Shonk Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories Culture: Russia
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ISBNs: 9780312423315 0312423314 |
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A collection of short works set in post-Communist Russia includes "My Mother's Garden," in which an elderly woman living near Chernobyl is frustrated about her inability to eat local vegetation; "Our American," in which a boy witnesses an older sibling's romance with an American; and "The Young People of Moscow," in which an aging couple sells Soviet poetry in an underground bazaar. A first collection. 15,000 first printing.
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