Research Catalog

Title

White walls : collected stories / Tatyana Tolstaya ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis, Jamey Gambrell.

Author

Tolstai︠a︡, Tatʹi︠a︡na, 1951 May 3-

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gambrell, Jamey
• Bouis, Antonina W.

Description

404 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Angels, imaginary friends, near-saints, shades and ber-ogres fall to Earth among ordinary Russians and routinely succeed in whetting the imagination in this sparkling collection from Tolstoy's great-grandniece, a longtime New Yorker fiction contributor. In "The Circle," Vassily Mikailovich (Tolstaya wryly leaves him without a surname) turns 60 and finds little behind or ahead of him, despite meeting the ghost of former lover Isolde.

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections. English
• New York Review Books classics

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Tolstai︠a︡, Tatʹi︠a︡na, 1951 May 3- > Translations into English
• Short stories, Russian > 20th century
• Women authors, Russian > 20th century

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories
• Translations
• Nouvelles.

System Details (note)

• Translated from the Russian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Loves me, loves me not -- Okkervil river -- Sweet shura -- On the golden porch -- Hunting the wooly mammoth -- The circle -- A clean sheet -- Fire and dust -- Date with a bird -- Sweet dreams, son -- Sonya -- The fakir -- Peters -- Sleepwalker in a fog -- Serafim -- The moon came out -- Night -- Heavenly flame -- Most beloved -- The poet and the muse -- Limpopo -- White walls -- Yorick.

ISBN

• 9781590171974 (alk. paper)
• 1590171977 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007005450

OCLC

• 82473736
• SCSB-12847221

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library