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Literalab reviews “Thirst”

By mbs | Published: February 18, 2012

Literalab, a blog about “Central European literary life,” has done a smart review of my translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s “Thirst,” the first to point out that this is a book about the making of an artist: In Thirst Gelasimov manages to get at the essence of making art and what it means to see the [...]

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“Thirst” as Audio Book

By mbs | Published: February 8, 2012

AmazonCrossing is releasing an audio book of my translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s novel Thirst, unabridged and narrated by Luke Daniels. Look for it here.

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High Praise for Andrei Gelasimov’s “Thirst”!

By mbs | Published: December 15, 2011

Fr. Grant Barber has written an insightful review for the Three Percent blog of my translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s short novel Thirst (published by AmazonCrossing): Gelasimov embraces the “show, don’t tell” dictum effectively throughout this short novel from the unique start. The first person narrator, later identified as Constantine or Kostya, has just returned to [...]

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Advance publicity for Andrei Gelasimov’s “Thirst”

By mbs | Published: September 24, 2011

AmazonCrossing will be publishing my translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s Thirst in November, and to whet the public’s appetite they’re offering an excerpt from the novel, which you can download here.

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