{"product_id":"white-walls-collected-stories-paperback","title":"White Walls: Collected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTatyana Tolstaya\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJamey Gambrell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAntonina Bouis\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.\" -\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTatyana Tolstaya's short stories--with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair--established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia's finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O'Brien has called Tolstaya \"an enchantress.\" Anita Desai has spoken of her work's \"richness and ardent life.\" Mixing heartbreak and humor, dizzying flights of fantasy and plunging descents to earth, Tolstaya is the natural successor in a great Russian literary lineage that includes Gogol, Yuri Olesha, Bulgakov, and Nabokov. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Walls\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive collection of Tolstaya's short fiction to be published in English so far. It presents the contents of her two previous collections, \u003ci\u003eOn the Golden Porch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSleepwalker in a Fog\u003c\/i\u003e, along with several previously uncollected stories. Tolstaya writes of lonely children and lost love, of philosophers of the absurd and poets working as janitors, of angels and halfwits. She shows how the extraordinary will suddenly erupt in the midst of ordinary life, as she explores the human condition with a matchless combination of unbound imagination and unapologetic sympathy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Leningrad, \u003cb\u003eTatyana Tolstaya\u003c\/b\u003e comes from an old Russian family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. She studied at Leningrad State University and then moved to Moscow, where she continues to live. She is also the author of Pushkin's Children: Writings on Russia and Russians. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamey Gambrell\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's \u003ci\u003eEarthly Signs: Moscow Diaries 1917--1922 \u003c\/i\u003eand Vladimir Sorokin's \u003ci\u003eIce\u003c\/i\u003e, published by NYRB Classics on December 2006. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonina W. Bouis's\u003c\/b\u003e most recent translation from the Russian is Edvard Radzinsky's \u003ci\u003eAlexander II: The Last Great Tsar\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730412277823,"sku":"9781590171974","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ea466a5c8166cf08896ce55ee7ef9642.webp?v=1765125862","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/white-walls-collected-stories-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}