num_pages: 368
description: Olga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores - really, colonizes - the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real to the surreal and from privilege to paranoia, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a darkly funny, demonically entertaining novel.
language: English
title: The Dream Life of Sukhanov
titlecomplete: The Dream Life of Sukhanov
genres: American, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 1594
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: New Writers
publisher: Penguin Books