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Leonid Tsypkin | The Bridge Over The Neroch

Faber & Faber

Leonid Tsypkin | The Bridge Over The Neroch

£9.95

9780571386918

21/11/24

PB

310 pages

Translated by Jamey Gambrell

“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.

 


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