PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies

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  • PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies Book Detail

  • Author : Ken Kalfus
  • Release Date : 2011-02-01
  • Publisher : Milkweed Editions
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 313
  • ISBN 13 : 1571318224
  • File Size : 17,17 MB

PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies by Ken Kalfus PDF Summary

Book Description: The acclaimed short story and novella collection by “a virtuoso of the dismal comedy of Soviet life”—and the basis for the HBO film PU-239 (The New York Times). Ken Kalfus traverses a century of Russian history in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he attempts to hawk plutonium in Moscow’s black market. In “Budyonnovsk,” a young man hopes that the takeover of his town by Chechen rebels will somehow save his marriage. Set in the 1920s, “Birobidzhan” is the bittersweet story of a Jewish couple journeying to the Soviet Far East, where they intend to establish the modern world’s first Jewish state. The novella, “Peredelkino,” which closes the book, traces the fortunes of a 1960s literary apparatchik whose romantic intrigues inadvertently become political. In these and other stories, Kalfus captures the famously enigmatic Russian psyche. A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

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