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“alla gorbunova”

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  • (Th)ings and (Th)oughts

    by Alla Gorbunova ...
    Translated by Elina Alter ...
    From a rising star of “inventive and wildly evocative” Russian literature (Publishers Weekly), a collection of short stories that straddles the line between delight and horror.Twisting the art of the fairytale into something entirely her own, Alla Gorbunova’s (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is a spellbinding collection of thematically-linked short prose. A teacher contemplates leaving her husband after ... Read more

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  • It's the End of the World, My Love

    by Alla Gorbunova ...
    Translated by Elina Alter ...
    Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all swirl in Alla Gorbunova's audacious and spectacular novel.Children, students, beggars, young poets: Alla Gorbunova's heroes and heroines live their lives intensely, experiencing the longing, joy, anticipation, and heartbreak of youth in 1990s Saint Petersburg. But Gorbunova ... Read more

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