Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-two depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time.

Contents:

• They Talk by Linor Goralik
• A Potential Customer by Ilya Kochergin
• Bregovich’s Sixth Journey by Oleg Zobern
• Have Mercy, Your Majesty Fish by Olga Zondberg
• History by Roman Senchin
• Drill and Song Day by Vladimir Kozlov
• Richeva by Nikolai Epikhin
• Nuclear Spring by Evgeni Alyokhin
• The Diesel Stop by Arkady Babchenko
• Why the Sky Doesn’t Fall by German Sadulaev
• More Elderly Person by Dmitry Danilov
• The Pleshcheyev Lake Monster by Marianna Geide
• Spit by Kirill Ryabov
• The Unbelievable and Tragic History of Misha Shtrikov and His Cruel Wife by Vadim Kalinin
• Between Summer and Fall by Maria Kamenetskaya
• Russian Halloween by Aleksander Bezzubtsev-Kondakov
• It All Depends on Who You Believe by Maria Boteva
• Rules by Anna Starobinets
• The Seventh Toast to Snails by Ekaterina Taratuta
• D.O.B. by Aleksander Snegirev
• The Killer and His Little Friend by Zakhar Prilepin
• One Year in Paradise by Natalya Kluchareva