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The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Olga Grushin
A brilliantly crafted novel about one man's betrayal of his talent, his friends, and his principles-a work of demon energy, startling imagery, and utter originality.
Putnam
January 2006
Featuring: Anatoly Sukhanov
368 pages
ISBN: 0399152989
Hardcover
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction
At fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could
want. Nearly twenty-five years ago, he traded his precarious
existence as a brilliant underground artist for the perks
and comforts of a high-ranking Soviet apparatchik. Once he
created art; now he censors it. His past is a shadow,
repressed to the point of nonexistence. But a series of
increasingly bizarre events transforms his perfect world
into a nightmare. Buried dreams return to haunt him, his
life begins to unravel, new political alignments in the
Kremlin threaten to undo him, and little by little, he finds
himself losing everything he sold his soul to gain. Told in dream sequences that may be true, in real time that
may be nightmares, in shifting time frames and voices, Olga
Grushin's novel is a highly sophisticated, often surreal
exploration of self-dissolution, faithlessness, and
transformation.
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