The Dream Life Of Sukhanov - Hardcover

Grushin, Olga

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399152989 ISBN 13: 9780399152986

Publisher: Marian Wood, 2006

Synopsis

After losing his job and the respect of his family, Russian avant-garde artist Anatoly Sukhanov confronts his past in a series of dreams that reveals the sacrifices he has made to gain material wealth in twentieth-century Moscow.

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Review:

'Grushin has written a remarkably accomplished first novel...it calls to mind the great Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov' -- Daily Mail

'Grushin is clearly a writer of large and original talent' -- James Lasdun

'Grushin's gilded writing describes cruelty and folly and delivers the subtlest, more heartbreaking type of literary suspense' -- Vogue

'On course to become the next great American novelist' -- Harpers and Queen

'Outstanding. Grushin guides a daring plot artfully . . . capitavatingly, she evokes the grit and secret sweetness of late Soviet Moscow' -- TLS

'So good, I felt like buying 10 copies and sending them to friends . . . a stunning fictional debut' -- Lesley Chamberlain, Independent

'That rare debut that requires no hype. Simply stunning' -- Library Journal

‘A startling, complex novel of rare poetic power . . . Grushin paints the psychological collapse of her protagonist in languorous, shimmery prose' -- Metro

‘Magnificent . . . astonishingly beautiful . . . The writing of angels’ -- The Irish Times

‘Sinuous prose . . . In Grushin’s wonderful novel, the incandescent wealth of Russia’s literary heritage blazes’ -- Telegraph

From the Publisher:

'The Dream Life of Sukhanov' has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marian Wood
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0399152989
• ISBN 13: 9780399152986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354