{"product_id":"the-dream-life-of-sukhanov-isbn-9780143038405","title":"The Dream Life of Sukhanov","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 \u003ci\u003eapparatchik\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Life of Sukhanov\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly funny, demonically entertaining novel.Ironic, surreal, sometimes stunning and always chaotic . . . Gogolesque in its sardonic humor. (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dream Life of Sukhanov\u003c\/i\u003e will tower over the majority of what publishers put out this year. (\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteeped in the tradition of Gogol, Bulgakov, and Nabokov, Grushin is clearly a writer of large and original talent. (James Lasdun)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrushin has imagined both Sukhanov’s carefully managed life and his richly troubling personal history with a detailed intensity that fruitfully echoes Solzhenitsyn’s best books, Tolstoy’s ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ and John O’Hara’s \u003ci\u003eAppointment in Samarra.\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe next big thing in American literary fiction . . . so accomplished are her skills—so hauntingly assured—that more than one US critic has greeted her as the next great American novelist. (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarks back to the great Russian masters [and] breathes new life into American literary fiction. (Jonathan Yardley, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e)Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971. She studied at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow State University, and Emory University. Her short fiction has appeared in \u003cb\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eConfrontation\u003c\/b\u003e, The \u003cb\u003eMassachusetts Review\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eArt Times\u003c\/b\u003e. This is her first novel. Grushin, who became an American citizen in 2002, lives in Washington, D.C.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305467891941,"sku":"NP9780143038405","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143038405.jpg?v=1767739079","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-dream-life-of-sukhanov-isbn-9780143038405","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}