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    Aetherial Worlds: Stories

    Written by Tatyana Tolstaya

    Narrated by Anya Migdal

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    About this audiobook

    From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than 20 years.

    Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories. A woman's deceased father appears in her dreams with clues about the afterlife; a Russian professor in a small American town constructs elaborate fantasies during her cigarette break; a man falls in love with a marble statue as his marriage falls apart; a child glimpses heaven through a stained-glass window. With the emotional insight of Chekhov, the surreal satire of Gogol, and a unique blend of humor and poetry all her own, Tolstaya transmutes the quotidian into aetherial alternatives. These tales, about politics, identity, love, and loss, cut to the core of the Russian psyche, even as they lay bare human universals. Tolstaya's characters—seekers all—are daydreaming children, lonely adults, dislocated foreigners in unfamiliar lands. Whether contemplating the strategic complexities of delivering telegrams in Leningrad or the meditative melancholy of holiday aspic, vibrant inner lives and the grim elements of existence are registered in equally sharp detail in a starkly bleak but sympathetic vision of life on earth.

    A unique collection from one of the first women in years to rank among Russia's most important writers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9780525589105
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    Aetherial Worlds: Stories
    Author

    Tatyana Tolstaya

    Tatyana Tolstaya is the great grandneice of Leo Tolstoy. Since the 1980s, she has enjoyed a reputation as one of Russia’s foremost original literary voices. The TLS hailed her first novel, The Slynx, a postmodern literary masterpiece of the same stature as Gogol’s Dead Souls and Nabokov’s Pale Fire, while Joseph Brodsky called her ‘the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today.’ She lives in Moscow. She has written for New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.

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