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Eleven Prague corpses : stories / Kirill Kobrin ; translated by Veronika Lakotová.
Van Pelt Library PG3482.6.O37 A2 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kobrin, Kirill, 1964- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Russian.
- Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Russia.
- Manners and customs.
- Short stories, Russian--Translations into English--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 157 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- 11 Prague corpses
- Place of Publication:
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Russian.
- Summary:
- Prague is a place where murders happen, and it takes an English-speaking Russian expat with a strong antipathy for the city and its inhabitants to solve the mystery . . . or maybe not. As the plots thicken, the two narrators of Kirill Kobrin's ten short stories gradually merge into a single hazy, undefined personality, characterized by a passion for logical reasoning, which leads to the identification of the culprit; except that the laboriously constructed murder narrative may stand or fall on a typo, and the mentally satisfying conclusion may or may not have much to do with reality ...
- Contents:
- The final line
- The triumph of evil
- Obituary
- CCTV
- Amadeus
- The last film of Vlasta S.
- An other plot
- The last story
- A string of coincidences
- The corner café.
- Notes:
- Collection of stories that appeared in various Russian magazines and also online.
- ISBN:
- 9781628971347
- 1628971347
- OCLC:
- 926313133
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