"Today an unusually gifted generation is entering Russian literature. . . . Literature has not seen such an influx of energy in a long time."--Olga Slavnikova, director of the Debut PrizeBy and about Russian hitchhikers, these stories take the reader along the endless roads of central Russia, the Ur[...]
These frank, unsparing, and varied stories by women in their twenties and thirties reveal the evolution of women's consciousness in Russia through two decades of violent social upheaval--including the dramatic monologue of a teenage girl who grew up in an orphanage; an escape to the Altai Mountains [...]