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WINNER OF ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2024?`How did these stories get into your hands? They flew, as if painted by Marc Chagall, through prison walls, borders, and languages.' - Valzhyna Mort`It's a terse account of painful experience, prison, bewilderment; hugely atmospheric and extremely funny - full of dry wit and small biting observations.' - Anna Vaught?100 stories written from prison in Belarus with 'echoes of early Chekhov, Zoshchenko and Samuel Beckett' (Michael Pursglove).?Despite its bleak context, this is a fundamentally optimistic book, engaging comically, yet honestly, with what it means to be human. Translated from the Russian by Jim and Ella Dingley. With an introduction by `risen star of the international poetry world' Valzhyna Mort.
Binding: Paperback / softback
Binding: Paperback / softback