{"product_id":"white-walls-collected-stories-9781590171974","title":"White Walls: Collected Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.\" -\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTatyana Tolstaya's short stories--with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair--established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia's finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O'Brien has called Tolstaya \"an enchantress.\" Anita Desai has spoken of her work's \"richness and ardent life.\" Mixing heartbreak and humor, dizzying flights of fantasy and plunging descents to earth, Tolstaya is the natural successor in a great Russian literary lineage that includes Gogol, Yuri Olesha, Bulgakov, and Nabokov. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Walls\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive collection of Tolstaya's short fiction to be published in English so far. It presents the contents of her two previous collections, \u003ci\u003eOn the Golden Porch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSleepwalker in a Fog\u003c\/i\u003e, along with several previously uncollected stories. Tolstaya writes of lonely children and lost love, of philosophers of the absurd and poets working as janitors, of angels and halfwits. She shows how the extraordinary will suddenly erupt in the midst of ordinary life, as she explores the human condition with a matchless combination of unbound imagination and unapologetic sympathy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590171974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.04w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2007 pg. 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/05\/2007 pg. 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2007 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/20\/2007 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/05\/2007 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tatyana Tolstaya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51948725338293,"sku":"9781590171974","price":18.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4580fdda-2aff-4faa-978c-77d94c908007.jpg?v=1762272557","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/white-walls-collected-stories-9781590171974","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}