Dmitry Lipskerov, an awardwinning Russian writer compared throughout his career to Mikhail Bulgakov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, focuses his unbridled imagination on the story of wealthy, satisfied Mr. Iratov, whose virile world is flipped upsidedown. Taking a page from Gogols satirical story "The Nose," wherein the protagonist loses his aforementioned facial feature, Lipskerovs novel transposes such a loss onto a more delicate organ. The protagonist awakens one morning bereft of his tool and the tool, which reappears, sentient and in a small village far away, without his man. Thus begins a novel both funny and absurd, in which characters come together across disparate social strata and with differing goals to weave the fate of a universe familiar yet fantastical, a perfect satire of the madness of Russian society today. The Tool and the Butterflies, Lipskerovs eagerly anticipated English language debut, is not just a darkly comedic exploration of postSoviet attitudes towards gender and sexuality, but also a historically and socially grounded narrative rich in naturalistic dialogue and everyday detail, and an engaging story of family and what matters most in life, in the grandest tradition of Russian literature.

Binding: Paperback;354 pages; Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 572 g; Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 29

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