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A collection of short fiction zigzags across modern Russia, from a nuclear power plant where a low-level worker is about to sell weapons-grade plutonium, to the ruins of Chechnya, to an editor faced with reviewing the fiction of Leonid Brezhnev, in an anthology nominated for the Pen/Faulkner Award. Reprint.
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With the publication of his first story collection, Thirst -- also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year -- Ken Kalfus made "a dazzling debut," emerging as "a major literary talent" (Salon.com). Now, in this eagerly anticipated follow-up -- drawn from his four years living in Moscow and traveling the breadth of the Russian landscape -- Kalfus creates unforgettable etchings of individual lives throughout a century of turbulent history, in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. Imaginative, densely detailed, and consistently rewarding, PU-239 And Other Russian Fantasies is a brilliant showcase for "one of the most interesting writers working today" (The San Diego Union-Tribune).
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