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Title: The Suitcase
Condition: New
EAN: 9781847492791
ISBN: 9781847492791
Publisher: Alma Classics
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 17/01/2013
Language: English
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 128mm
Item Weight: 164g
Author: Sergei Dovlatov
Translator: Antonina W. Bouis
Contributor: Antonina W. Bouis (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 1847492797
Description: 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: GB
Genre: Fiction
Release Year: 2013

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