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And Other Stories
Counterpoint
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 1582436029
EAN: 9781582436029
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Non-Fiction
After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking storiesβ interconnected and juxtaposed using an experimental method Solzhenitsyn referred to as βbinaryββjoin Solzhenitsynβs already available work as some of the most powerful literature of the twentieth century. With Soviet and post-Soviet life as their focus, they weave and shift inside their shared setting, illuminating the Russian experience under the Soviet regime. In βThe Upcoming Generation,β a professor promotes a dull but proletarian student purely out of good will. Years later, the same professor finds himself arrested and, in a striking twist of fate, his student becomes his interrogator. In βNastenka,β two young women with the same name lead routine, ordered livesβuntil the Revolution exacts radical change on them both. The most eloquent and acclaimed opponent of government oppression, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, and his work continues to receive international acclaim. Available for the first time in English, Apricot Jam: And Other Stories is a striking example of Solzhenitsynβs singular style and only further solidifies his place as a true literary giant.
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