This is a facsimile of the Russian-language short story collection published by Moscow Worker Press in 1993. Prefaced by well-known critic Lev Anninsky, the book contains stories about Russia and America, which previously appeared in such Russian periodicals, as the Literary Gazette, Youth, Literary Review, Crocodile, Evening Moscow, and in Russian-language émigré publications --the New Russian Word, Literary Courier, Panorama, and others. In English translation, the stories have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, Prism International, Confrontation, International Quarterly, The New Renaissance, Midstream, and other American periodicals.
An author and professor of Russian at Hunter College in NYC, a three-time recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, in addition to his twelve books, his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Partisan Review, and the North American Review. "