33 Moments of Happiness St. Petersburg Stories
- List Price: $16.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 06/01/2001
These thirty-three macabre, often comical short pieces revolve around moments of odd bliss -- moments seized by characters who have found ways to conquer the bleakness of everyday life in the chaotic world of post-communist Russia.
Peopled by Mafia gunmen, desperate young prostitutes, bewildered foreign businessmen, and even a trio of hungry devils, the stories are by turns tragic and bleakly funny. From a sly retelling of the legend of St. Nicholas featuring a rich American named Nick, to an account of a lavish gourmet feast in which the young female cook ends up as the main dish, these stories are above all playful and even surreal -- and many of them are masterful tributes to Russian writers from Gogol to Nabokov.
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