White Walls: Collected Stories (New York Review Books

White Walls: Collected Stories (New York Review Books (Paperback))

A New York Review Books Original

â€œTolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.â€ â€“Time

Tatyana Tolstayaâ€™s short storiesâ€”with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flairâ€”established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russiaâ€™s finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna Oâ€™Brien has called Tolstaya â€œan enchantress.â€ Anita Desai has spoken of her workâ€™s â€œrichness and ardent life.â€ Mixing heartbreak and humor, dizzying flights of fantasy and plunging descents to earth, Tolstaya is the natural successor in a great Russian literary lineage that includes Gogol, Yuri Olesha, Bulgakov, and Nabokov.

White Walls is the most comprehensive collection of Tolstayaâ€™s short fiction to be published in English so far. It presents the contents of her two previous collections, On the Golden Porch and Sleepwalker in a Fog, along with several previously uncollected stories. Tolstaya writes of lonely children and lost love, of philosophers of the absurd and poets working as janitors, of angels and halfwits. She shows how the extraordinary will suddenly erupt in the midst of ordinary life, as she explores the human condition with a matchless combination of unbound imagination and unapologetic sympathy.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2007-04-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590171974

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2007-04-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590171974

White Walls: Collected Stories (New York Review Books (Paperback))

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