From a rising star of inventive and wildly evocative Russian literature(Publishers Weekly),a collection of short stories that straddles the line between delight and horror.Twisting the art of the fairytale into something entirely her own, Alla Gorbunovas(Th)ings and (Th)oughtsis a spellbinding collection of thematicallylinked short prose. A teacher contemplates leaving her husband after learning that he doesnt have a soul a functionary realizes that the only way to survive in contemporary Russia is to go insane cars fall inexplicably from the sky skeletons turn up in abandoned lots a hapless everyman named Ivan Petrovich travels through a madcap Boschian afterlife, coming facetoface with his own shortcomings, but failing, time after time, to finally get it right. Elsewhere, characters contend with puns, predators, and polyamory, often finding that the bleakness of their existence is an ordeal that only love can sweetenthough it also cant fix anything.A witty satirist with a postapocalyptic vision and a theologians sense of seriousness and depth, Gorbunova is heir to the likes of Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Daniil Kharms. In these fantastic, parablelike tales, she restores fictions capacity to amuse, terrify, and enchant, turning a magical lens on bitter realities.

Binding: Paperback;200 pages; Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 442 g; Dimensions: 215 x 140 x 19

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