num_pages: 224
description: Young Americans abroad in Central Asia find themselves pushed to their limits in these acclaimed, prize-winning stories by one of our most exciting and talented new authors. Combining bleak humor, ironic insight, deep compassion, and unflinching moral and ethical inquiry, Tom Bissell gives us a gripping collection that is both timeless and profoundly relevant to today’s complex world.
language: English
title: God Lives in St. Petersburg: Short Stories
titlecomplete: God Lives in St. Petersburg: Short Stories
genres: Short Stories, Russia, Literary Fiction, Travel, Kazakhstan, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 378
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group