Sergei Dovlatov
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A Foreign Woman by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 113Year: 1986The plot focuses on the young Russian émigré Marusya Tartakovskaya in New York. Marusya grows tired of the Russian émigré community in Queens. She impulsively marries a simple, Latino bartender named Rafael. This marriage causes a scandal and condemnation among the Russian émigrés. The love line between Marusya and Rafael becomes a test of the […]
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Ours by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 135Year: 1983The book contains stories about ten of the author’s relatives. The great-grandfather, a tailor, made a failed attempt to serve Lenin. The maternal grandfather worked as a teacher in the USA and had an affair with a Black woman before returning to the USSR. The book details the father’s theatrical work and his problems with […]
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Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 128Year: 1985The main character, the writer Boris Alikhanov, takes a job as a guide at the Pushkin Reserve. He leaves Leningrad, fleeing his divorce and the emigration of his wife and daughter. The book describes his service as a guide, his drinking, and conflicts with colleagues. He awaits the final arrival of his wife to finalize […]
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The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 224Year: 1981The book is structured as 11 compromise stories, each featuring an official newspaper article from Soviet Estonia followed by the true account of the absurd events that led to its writing. The author, a journalist, describes falsifications and absurdities in the newspaper office. One story details a frantic hunt for a suitable infant for an […]
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The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 144Year: 1986Upon emigrating, the journalist managed to take with him only one blue Finnish suitcase. Inside were eight completely random objects, each of which serves as the key to a separate, often absurd and tragicomic story from his past life. Among these relics are a decent but worn suit of a deceased bandit; crepe women’s stockings, […]
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The Zone by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 192Year: 1982The action takes place in a strict-regime labor camp in the Komi ASSR. The author serves as a guard. The book describes the brutal fights between prisoners with sharpened rasp files and the eating of a killed dog due to starvation. The camp administration orders the prisoners to paint a huge portrait of Lenin on […]
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