"Everything is always topsyturvy here," he said.A small town in the Ural mountains is the backdrop to the heartbreak and joys of a RussianJewish family, witnessing romance and illness, funerals and friendships, and the catastrophe of wartime invasion.Amidst the snowy peaks of the Ararat valley, a married couple from Moscow admire the view from their hotel balcony, unprepared for the absurdist realities of tourism in the USSR.From chandeliered metro stations to institute bus stops, monolithic skyscrapers and cockroachinfested apartments, Leonid Tsypkin evokes the tragicomedy of Soviet existence in transcendental prose.

Binding: Paperback;252 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: FC; Weight: 388 g; Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 22

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