Good Citizens Need Not Fear
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A brilliant and bitingly funny collection of stories united around
a single, crumbling apartment building in Ukraine that heralds the
arrival of a major new talent. 'Creative, poignant and darkly
hilarious . . .an outstanding first book' ANTHONY DOERR, author of
All the Light We Cannot See'Luminous' YANN MARTEL, author of Life
of Pi'The funniest, most politically astute book I've read in
years' MIRIAM TOEWS, author of Women TalkingA bureaucratic glitch
omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal
records. So begins Maria Reva's ingeniously intertwined stories
that span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following
the fall of the Soviet Union. As the benighted denizens of 1933
Ivansk Street weather the official neglect of the authorities, they
devise cunning ways to survive. An agoraphobic recluse makes money
by mapping the vinyl grooves of illegal Western records onto stolen
X-ray film, a delusional secret service agent becomes convinced
he's being covertly recruited to guard Lenin's tomb, just as his
parents supposedly were, and weaving the narratives together is
chameleon-like Zaya, a cleft-lipped orphan who reappears as a Miss
USSR beauty-contest crasher and later as a sadist for hire to the
Eastern Bloc's newly minted oligarchs. Good Citizens Need Not Fear
moves from moments of intense paranoia to surprising tenderness,
exploring what it is to be an individual amid the rolling forces of
history.
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Virago Press ,
Reva Maria
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Virago Press,
Reva Maria
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Little Brown Book
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