Skunk  (Vol.15 of the GLAS Series): A Life (Glass Innactive Series)
"Aleshovsky's is an important voice...in contemporary Russian fiction. He makes use of Gogolean satire, the folk tale, the chronicle, and even the saint's life. Throughout the novel he steers a steady course between sentimentality and cynicism, and maintains a creative tension between custom and circumstance, typicality and eccentricity." --Times Literary Supplement