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ISBN-10: 0811216616
ISBN-13: 9780811216616
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 03/27/2013
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.22" W, 0.69" H

The Bridge Over the Neroch: And Other Works

Translator: Jamey Gambrell

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Price: $16.95

Overview

Leonid Tsypkin’s novel Summer in Baden-Baden was hailed as an undiscovered classic of 20th-century Russian literature. The Washington Post claimed it “a chronicle of fevered genius,” and The New York Review of Books described it as “gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving.” In her introduction, Susan Sontag said: “If you want from one book an experience of the depth and authority of Russian literature, read this book.”

At long last, here are the remaining writings of Leonid Tsypkin: in the powerful novella Bridge Across the Neroch, the history of four generations of a Russian-Jewish family is seen through the lens of a doctor living in Moscow. In Norartakir, a husband and wife on vacation in Armenia bask in the view of Mt. Ararat and the ancient history of the land, until they are unceremoniously kicked out of their hotel and returned to Soviet reality. The remaining stories offer knowing windows into Soviet urban life. As the translator Jamey Gambrell says in her preface: “For Tsypkin’s narrator, history is a tightrope to be walked every minute of every day, in both his internal and external world.”

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Excellent translations of Tyspkin's...small literary oeuvre of astonishing originality.–Rachel Polonsky "New York Review of Books"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811216616
ISBN-13: 9780811216616
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 03/27/2013
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.22" W, 0.69" H
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