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Aetherial Worlds audiobook
- By: Tatyana Tolstaya
- Narrator: Anya Migdal
- Category: Fiction, Short Stories (single author)
- Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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Aetherial Worlds Audiobook Summary
“Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but her memories of her Soviet childhood have a tender, personal quality.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Grimly hilarious … Everything in this generous writer’s hands is vivid and alive …Tolstaya is divinely quotable—slangy, indignant, lyrical, crude…It’s all sublime…the swerve and cackle, the breeziness and dark depths…the torrents of language and the offhand perfect touch…She has been compared to Chekhov. Absurd…Tolstaya barrels by him and knocks him in the ditch.” —Joy Williams, Bookforum
From one of modern Russia’s finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years.
Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories. A woman’s deceased father appears in her dreams with clues about the afterlife; a Russian professor in a small American town constructs elaborate fantasies during her cigarette break; a man falls in love with a marble statue as his marriage falls apart; a child glimpses heaven through a stained-glass window. With the emotional insight of Chekhov, the surreal satire of Gogol, and a unique blend of humor and poetry all her own, Tolstaya transmutes the quotidian into aetherial alternatives. These tales, about politics, identity, love, and loss, cut to the core of the Russian psyche, even as they lay bare human universals. Tolstaya’s characters–seekers all–are daydreaming children, lonely adults, dislocated foreigners in unfamiliar lands. Whether contemplating the strategic complexities of delivering telegrams in Leningrad or the meditative melancholy of holiday aspic, vibrant inner lives and the grim elements of existence are registered in equally sharp detail in a starkly bleak but sympathetic vision of life on earth.
A unique collection from one of the first women in years to rank among Russia’s most important writers.
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Aetherial Worlds Full Details
| Narrator | Anya Migdal |
| Length | 7 hours 12 minutes |
| Author | Tatyana Tolstaya |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525589105 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Aetherial Worlds is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: Russian authors, dark humor, aspic, Putin, best short stories, humor, short story collections, new yorker, spirituality, Russian fiction, modern fiction, contemporary fiction, literary fiction, short stories, Russia, russian, women, women's fiction, Soviet, university, ethereal, relationships, family, metaphysical, Russian literature, writing, politics, Russian politics, identity, culture, outcasts, translation, afterlife, stories, russian writers, storytelling, satire, fiction, long story short, fiction books, literature, Fiction, Short Stories (single author), Fiction, Literary The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Short Stories (single author)
Additional info
The publisher of the Aetherial Worlds is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780525589105.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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