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Joining the media circus that attends the deathbed of Tolstoy in 1910, politically ambitious cinematographer Nikolai Gribshin hopes to capture Tolstoy's death on film and inadvertently encounters the scientist Vorobev and revolutionist Joseph Stalin.
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'A stylish, stimulating debut novel about revolutionary Russia' -- Boyd Tonkin, INDEPENDENT
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'A stylish, stimulating debut novel about revolutionary Russia' -- Boyd Tonkin, INDEPENDENT
'Funny, hip...smart, technically innovative...wise, moving, and profound...Kalfus is all of these at once' -- DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
'Kalfus's book is absorbing, intelligent, witty and wry' -- Book of the Week, THE TIMES
'Wry, humane, precise and beautifully smitten with ideas' -- JONATHAN FRANZEN
Ken Kalfus has lived in Paris, Dublin, Belgrade and Moscow. He is the author of THIRST and PU-239 AND OTHER RUSSIAN FANTASIES. His fiction has appeared in HARPERS and THE VILLAGE VOICE Literary Supplement.
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- PublisherEcco Pr
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0060501367
- ISBN 13 9780060501365
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages295
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