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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 garnered comparisons to such acclaimed bestselling authors as David Foster Wallace and Lorrie Moore. Now, in this eagerly anticipated follow-up -- drawn from his four years living in Moscow and traveling across the breadth of the Russian landscape -- Kalfus plucks individual lives from the stew of a century of turbulent history and serves them up in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The title story follows a nuclear power plant worker as he hawks a most unusual package on the black market -- a canister of weapons-grade plutonium. In "Anzhelika, 13", a young girl guiltily perceives a connection between the onset of her menstrual period and the death of Stalin. In "Budyonnovsk", a man hopes desperately that the takeover of his town by Chechen rebels will somehow save his marriage. And the closing novella, "Peredelkino", traces the fortunes of a 1960s literary 'apparatchik' whose romantic intrigues inadvertently become political. Imaginative, densely detailed, and consistently rewarding, PU-239 is a brilliant showcase for "one of the most interesting writers working today".

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Plný název: "Pu-239" and Other Russian Fantasies: Novella and Stories
• Autor: Ken Kalfus
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 272
• EAN: 9781571310293
• ISBN: 1571310290
• ID: 04818930
• Nakladatelství: Milkweed Editions
• Hmotnost: 531 g
• Rozměry: 222 × 146 × 28 mm
• Datum vydání: 01. June 1999

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