Sergei Dovlatov The Suitcase (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The SuitcaseCondition: NewEAN: 9781847492791ISBN: 9781847492791Publisher: Alma ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/17/2013Language: EnglishItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 128mmItem Weight: 164gAuthor: Sergei DovlatovTranslator: Antonina W. BouisContributor: Antonina W. Bouis (Translated by)ISBN-10: 1847492797Description: Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes a story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crêpe socks bring back memories of his attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer. Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov’s characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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