Good citizens need not fear / Maria Reva.
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Reva, Maria (författare)
- ISBN 9780349012698
- Publicerad: London : Virago Press, 2020
- Engelska 212 pages
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Part one. Before the fall. Novostroïka -- Little rabbit -- Letter of apology -- Bone music -- Miss USSR -- Part two. After the fall. Lucky toss -- Roach brooch -- The ermine coat -- Homecoming.
- "A bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal records. So begins Reva's ingeniously intertwined narratives, nine stories which span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union. But even as the benighted denizens of 1933 Ivansk Street weather the official neglect of the increasingly powerless authorities, they devise ingenious ways to survive. In 'Bone Music', an agoraphobic recluse survives by selling contraband LPs, mapping the vinyl grooves of illegal Western records into stolen x-ray film. A delusional secret service agent in 'Letter of Apology' becomes convinced he's being covertly recruited to guard Lenin's tomb, just as his parents, not seen since he was a small child, supposedly were. Weaving the narratives together is the unforgettable, chameleon-like Zaya: a cleft-lipped orphan in 'Little Rabbit', a beauty-pageant crasher in 'Miss USSR', a sadist-for-hire to the Eastern bloc's newly minted oligarchs in 'Homecoming'."--Provided by publisher.
Ämnesord
- Neighbors -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Apartment houses -- Ukraine -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Resilience (Personality trait) -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Social change -- Ukraine -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Apartment houses. (fast)
- Change (Psychology) (fast)
- Economic history. (fast)
- Identity (Psychology) (fast)
- Manners and customs. (fast)
- Neighbors. (fast)
- Satire. (fast)
- Social change. (fast)
- Social conditions. (fast)
- Ukraine -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Ukraine -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Ukraine. (fast)
- Since 1900 (fast)
Genre
- Fiction. (fast)
- Humorous fiction. (fast)
- Short stories. (fast)
- Humorous fiction. (lcgft)
- Satirical literature. (lcgft)
- Short stories. (lcgft)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Hce Utländsk skönlitteratur i svensk översättning
Klassifikation
- C813.6 (DDC)
- Hce (kssb/8)
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