Wild East
Subtitle: Stories from the Last Frontier
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: October 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780812973174
Subjects: Fiction - General; Literary Criticism; Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / General; Fiction; General; Europe, Eastern
First sentence: I awoke one day to a phone call from the painter Chartkov, a recent graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, a lean, sallow fellow with a flaxen goatee and the overearnest expression of the Slavic intellectual - yes, we all know the kind of person I'm talking about.