Urban romances & other stories
By: Yury Miloslavsky ; edited by Nicholas Luker ; translated by Gary Kern ... [et al.].
Contributors: Luker, Nicholas J. L.; Kern, Gary.
Publisher: Ardis
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English.; Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Other titles: Urban romances and other stories
Description: Yury Miloslavsky is one of the most highly regarded writers in today's Russia, despite the fact that his major works were written in emigration. The brilliantly written stories in this, his first collection in English, focus on a world that has changed little even during this period of Russian gangster capitalism, the world of the Russian urban underclass.

Miloslavsky's remarkable combination of the profane slang of the young street toughs fused with intensely compact literary language is used to show the horror and ugliness, but also the comedy and beauty of his heroes, whose lives have seldom been recorded with this much understanding, respect, and compassion.

These are seemingly unredeemable characters, petty criminals, prostitutes, alcoholics, and hooligans, but there is a code they live and die by, and the author's aim is to make us see and understand them without judgement.
Table of contents: title: The death of Manon; title: Rozin; title: Love; title: Omelyashko; title: The lyric tenor; title: Urban romances; title: Lyudmila Ivanovna's son; title: Dominoes; title: Crazies; title: Girls, tell your friend, I; title: Girls, tell your friend, II; title: From the noise of the horsemen and the Bowmen; title: Ombra Adorata.