Sleepwalker in a Fog - Hardcover

A collection of stories filled with humor, pathos, passion, and despair includes the story of Poppykins, a somnambulist brought by his daughter to a healer; Natasha, as she searches Leningrad for her lost lover; and Nina, a doctor determined to cure a poet

most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed to Lora, an incessant talker who dreams of having a fluffy tail. We also read of Natasha, who searches Leningrad and her memory for her lost love; of Dmitry Ilich's elaborate seduction of Olga Mikhailovna; and more. In the tradition of such writers as Gogol and Chekhov, Tatyana Tolstaya transforms ordinary lives into something magical and strange.

Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
From the Trade Paperback edition.