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The Man Who Couldn’t Die
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The Tale of an Authentic Human Being
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Artikel-Nr:
9780231185950
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
29.01.2019
Seiten:
248
Autor:
Olga Slavnikova
Gewicht:
305 g
Format:
216x139x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Olga Slavnikova was born in 1957 in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg). She is the author of several award-winning novels, including 2017, which won the 2006 Russian Booker prize and was translated into English by Marian Schwartz (2010), and Long Jump, which won the 2018 Yasnaya Polyana Award.Marian Schwartz translates Russian contemporary and classic fiction, including Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and is the principal translator of Nina Berberova.
In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, a paralyzed veteran's wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union's collapse from him in order to keep him--and his pension--alive, until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. An instant classic of post-Soviet Russian literature, Olga Slavnikova's The Man Who Couldn't Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life--and the means and meaning of their own lives--by creating a world that doesn't change, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.
Introduction by Mark LipovetskyThe Man Who Couldn't Die