Squaring the Circle: Short Stories By Winners of the Debut Prize

by Olga Slavnikova (Compiler), Alexei Lukyanov, Igor Savelyev

Squaring the Circle is Russian prose by a new generation of authors from various parts of Russia who never lived in the USSR and who, unlike older writers, are not fighting the Soviet past. Young people have no algorithms for building their lives and careers. There are no guarantees, but anything is possible.

Genres: Fiction

301 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 2010

About the author

English language profile for Ольга Славникова

Reviews

[Daisy]

from "High Pressure":
'Look, everything you don't like is the reason you're trying to enter the fraternal bosom of the European Union.'
'Brothers don't have bosoms,' Andryukha commented.
Everyone gave that serious thought but let it drop.

They explained to Igor that if honest citizens were allowed to sell gas freely, that would be communism, and there's not one single... well you know... in short, no one would work and everyone would sell gas.

[Laura]

Some of the stories are great, but some of them are rather difficult to get through.