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The Possessed

Adventures With Russian Books And The People Who Read Them

by Elif Batuman
language: english
Publisher: GRANTA PUBLICATIONS LTD, July of 2024 ‧
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Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer’s strange encounters with the fanatics who are devoted – absurdly! melancholically! ecstatically! – to the Russian classics. Combining fresh readings of the great Russians from Gogol to Goncharov with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence, The Possessed introduces a brilliant and distinctive new voice: comic, humane, charming, poignant and completely, and unpretentiously, full of an infectious love for literature.

Wildly original, creatively rambling... the funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter. The Times

Dazzlingly good ... very bookish, very clever and very funny ... [The Possessed is] a preposterously engaging volume. Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph

The highest compliment you can pay such a book is that it sends you back to the original authors refreshed. I can go one higher - I found myself simply wanting to read more from Elif Batuman. Evening Standard

The Possessed

Adventures With Russian Books And The People Who Read Them

by Elif Batuman

Property Description
ISBN: 9781803510187
Publisher: GRANTA PUBLICATIONS LTD
Release Date: July of 2024
Language: English
Dimensions: 130 x 192 x 18 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 304
Format: Book
Collection: Best Of Granta
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Memories and Testimonies
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781803510187

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