Lisa Hayden Espenschade of Lizok’s Bookshelf: Reading Ideas from Classic and Contemporary Russian Fiction raves about Leonid Yuzefovich’s Cranes and Pygmies, which won the 2009 Big Book award—and which she read in the original Russian. As a bonus, she recommends his story, “The Storm,” which appeared in my translation in Life Stories, a collection from [...]
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