Ludmila Ulitskaya, Author Schocken Books Inc $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4185-3
The oddly matched protagonists in this award-winning Russian author's lively American debut are connected through their love for the artist Alik, a Russian migr keeling merrily toward death. Alik's loved ones gather at his cramped, stiflingly hot...
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Ludmila Ulitskaya, trans. from the Russian by Bela Shayevich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-374-16667-0
The latest from Ulitskaya (The Funeral Party) is a massive, swirling epic, stretching across half a century and chronicling the lives and adventures of three artistic childhood friends: Ilya, the photographer; Mikha, the poet and literature hound;...
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Ludmila Ulitskaya, trans. from the Russian by Diane Nemec Ignashev. Northwestern Univ., $24.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-8101-3348-8
Soviet life, a version of the afterlife, the results of medical science and brutal political repression, the death of Stalin, and the birth of thousands of infants into the hands of Dr. Pavel Alekseevich Kukotsky, a Russian gynecologist with a...
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Ludmila Ulitskaya, Author, Arch Tait, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Arch Tait. Schocken $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4196-9
The members of a raucous extended Russian family trade witticisms, fall in and out of love with the wrong people and try—with mixed success—to make important decisions in this wry second novel by the author of The Funeral Party. At the...
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Ludmila Ulitskaya, trans. from the Russian by Arch Tait, Overlook, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59020-320-0
In her fourth book to be translated into English (for which Tait won the PEN Literature in Translation award), Ulitskaya weaves a dense narrative of the lives touched by Br. Daniel Stein. Ulitskaya's (The Funeral Party) ambitious effort is a kind of
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Ludmila Ulitskaya, trans. from the Russian by Polly Gannon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (560p) ISBN 978-0-374-29365-9
Ulitskaya (The Big Green Tent) travels through a century of tangled Russian family history in this lucid saga. Nora Ossietzky, upon the death of her grandmother, discovers a trunk filled with letters and diaries from the 1900s and 1940s that...
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