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The Dream Life of Sukhanov

Published
Jan 2006
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General Fiction General Fiction
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368

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Olga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores—really, colonizes—the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real to the surreal and from privilege to paranoia, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a darkly funny, demonically entertaining novel.

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Feb 2007 Penguin ISBN 0143038400
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First Edition Jan 2006 Putnam ISBN 0399152989
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Feb 2007 Penguin ISBN 1101077980
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Feb 2007 Penguin ISBN B000SEFKDU
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