The tool and the butterflies / Dmitry Lipskerov ; translated from the Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipskerov, Dmitriĭ, author.

Contributor:

Costigan-Humes, Reilly, translator.

Wheeler, Isaac Stackhouse, translator.

Standardized Title:

O nem i o babochkakh. English

Language:

English

Russian

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

348 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

"Taking a page from Gogol's satirical story "The Nose," wherein the protagonist loses his aforementioned facial feature, Lipskerov's novel transposes such a loss onto a more delicate organ. The protagonist awakens one morning bereft of his tool; and the tool, which re-appears, sentient and in a small village far away, without his man. Thus begins a novel both funny and absurd, in which characters come together across disparate social strata and with differing goals to weave the fate of a universe familiar yet fantastical, a perfect satire of the madness of Russian society today. Not just a darkly comedic exploration of post-Soviet attitudes towards gender and sexuality, this novel is also a historically and socially grounded narrative rich in naturalistic dialogue and everyday detail, and an engaging story of family and what matters most in life, in the grandest tradition of Russian literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Novel.

Other Format:

Online version: Lipskerov, Dmitri�i. The tool and the butterflies

ISBN:

9781646050390

1646050398

OCLC:

1144109560

Publisher Number:

99986230194