The Bridge Over The Neroch And Other Works

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"Everything is always topsy-turvy here," he said.

A small town in the Ural mountains is the backdrop to the heartbreak and joys of a Russian-Jewish family, witnessing romance and illness, funerals and friendships, and the catastrophe of wartime invasion.

Amidst the snowy peaks of the Ararat valley, a married couple from Moscow admire the view from their hotel balcony, unprepared for the absurdist realities of tourism in the USSR.

From chandeliered metro stations to institute bus stops, monolithic skyscrapers and cockroach-infested apartments, Leonid Tsypkin evokes the tragicomedy of Soviet existence in transcendental prose.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780571386918
Published: November 2024

Number of pages: 320
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Faber & Faber