The Slynx
$40.87
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2007
Summary
“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” - The Times Literary Supplement
Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job-transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe-and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he’s not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590171967 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590171969 |
| Author: | Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2007 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 131mm x 203mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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Critics Review
“a beautiful book … intelligent and thought-provoking, and the kind of novel any bibliophile would relish reading.” Starburst magazine
Tatyana Tolstaya
Born in Leningrad, Tatyana Tolstaya comes from an old Russian family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. She studied at Leningrad State University and then moved to Moscow, where she continues to live. She is also the author of Pushkin’s Children: Writings on Russia and Russians.
Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva’s Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries 1917-1922 and Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice.
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