Joseph Lewis
Seller Rating: 4
Location: Berkeley, CA
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0002712520 1992 HarperCollins, Publishers (London, England) Harvill Trade Paperback; Edition Not [...]
0002712520 1992 HarperCollins, Publishers (London, England) Harvill Trade Paperback; Edition Not Stated; text clean/UNMARKED; color cover very light rubbing w/few minor surface scratches/edges fine w/minimal corner curling; spine strong + uncreased; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 228 pages + 10 preliminary pgs; translated from Russian w/foreword by Frank Williams; text is 5 short stories (The Meeting; On Trial; Story of a Strange Time; The Option; The Visit) "about the 'strange time' during + after WWII, when a Soviet citizen could only avoid trouble w/authorities by turning traditional moral values on the head + conniving at a system of betrayal, vengeance + dishonesty"; author sentenced to 10 years in "severe 'special regime' prison camp for 'anti-Soviet propaganda'" after these stories' publication in France; author biography; front cover illustration by Boris Sveshnikov; "moving, vivid, compelling...a master storyteller in best Russian tradition"--Elon Salmon, Yorkshire Post; "ironic, humane, cumulatively compelling"--Independent on Sunday; very good copy of 15-year-old British paperback.
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