Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291050558
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 325
Book Description
Medio metro de ternura
Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291050558
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 325
Book Description
Cuadernos de viaje. A través de África
Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291046496
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 159
Book Description
De soledades y orvallo
Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129104776X
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 634
Book Description
Vivir en los bosques
Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291051430
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 262
Book Description
La edad madura
Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291020705
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 543
Book Description
La memoria y la madurez, un encuentro en que el autor va desgranando experiencias y recuerdos de una vida.
Epílogo
Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129104874X
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 257
Book Description
Cuadernos de viaje. Caminando por España
Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291047301
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 712
Book Description
Días de hamaca y río
Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291047913
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 286
Book Description
Invierno
Author: Alberto de la MadridPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291050337
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 135
Book Description
Aetherial Worlds
Author: Tatyana TolstayaPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1524732788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
“Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship." —The Wall Street Journal “Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but her memories of her Soviet childhood have a tender, personal quality.” —The New York Times Book Review “Grimly hilarious ... Everything in this generous writer’s hands is vivid and alive …Tolstaya is divinely quotable—slangy, indignant, lyrical, crude...It’s all sublime...the swerve and cackle, the breeziness and dark depths...the torrents of language and the offhand perfect touch…She has been compared to Chekhov. Absurd...Tolstaya barrels by him and knocks him in the ditch.” —Joy Williams, Bookforum From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty 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.