num_pages: 290
description: “Nails” Robakoski is unraveling after his girlfriend Magda dumps him. A tracksuited slacker who spends most of his time doing little more than searching for his next line of speed and dreaming up conspiracy theories about the Polish economy, Nails ricochets from Magda, a doomed beauty who bewitches men, to Angela, a proselytizing vegetarian Goth, to Natasha, a hellcat who tears his house apart looking for speed, to Ala, the nerdy economics-student girlfriend of the friend who stole Magda. Through it all, a xenophobic campaign against the proliferating Russian black market escalates, to the point where the citizens have to paint their houses in national colors and one of these girls will be crowned Miss No Russkies Day—or is that just in Nails’ fevered mind?
language: English
title: Snow White and Russian Red
titlecomplete: Snow White and Russian Red
genres: 21st Century, Poland, Polish Literature, Society, Humor, Surreal, Novels, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 2561
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike)
category: Audience, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Paszporty Polityki, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch
publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat