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The Suitcase

The Suitcase
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  • Срок доставки: до 30.12.2024
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  • Служба доставки DPD
  • Доставка "The Suitcase" по всему миру: США, Германия, Польша, Израиль, Англия и др.

  • Автор:
  • Издательство: Alma Books COMMIS
  • Язык: английский
  • Страна изготовления: GB
  • Страниц: 144
  • Переплет: Мягкая обложка
  • EAN: 9781847492791
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.