Publication

2013 - And Other Stories

Language

English

Word Count

57,750 words, Guess

Page Count

231 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781908276193
  • ISBN-101908276193
  • Better World Books9781908276193
  • Open LibraryOL38262541M

Description

"It was easy to fall into Karabas, as easy as falling down a hole, but it was hard, to put it bluntly, to get out again. Never mind the zeks, even the soldiers were exiled ...' Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year's papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men ...This blackly comic novel shows the unsettling consequences of thinking for yourself under the Soviet Union."--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Captain of the SteppeAnd Other Stories2013

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