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33 Moments of Happiness

Paperback

Main Details

Title 33 Moments of Happiness
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ingo Schulze
Translated by John E. Woods
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
Category/GenreShort stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781447250807
ClassificationsDewey:833.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 12 September 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Each episode in this dazzling debut collection captures the spark in some tiny detail of everyday life in contemporary St Petersburg and fans it into a story that flares with comedy, surreal passion, heartbreaking indifference and mad Russian excess. There's a Mafia shoot-out in a disco, as told by a gun-toting Walter Mitty simultaneously thrilled and horrified by the carnage he is creating. There are three devils who appear for an evening at the steam bath, their revelries ending in cannibalism - or is the watching manager just mad? These are sad, whimsical, macabre, bleakly funny stories, all told in a playful and voluptuous prose that is itself a homage to the great Russian masters whom Schulze is honouring - from Gogol to Pasternak, from Chekhov to Nabokov.

Author Biography

Ingo Schulze, born in Dresden in 1962, studied classical philology at the University of Jena. His first book, 33 Moments of Happiness, won both the prestigious Doblin Prize and the Willner Prize for Literature. He has subsequently written Simple Stories, published in 2001.