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The Dream Life of Sukhanov Olga Grushin

The Dream Life of Sukhanov By Olga Grushin

The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin


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At the age of fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want: a glittering career, a beautiful wife and two children, a grand apartment in the smartest part of Moscow. Then perestroika dawns and the rigid structures of the world in which Sukhanov has thrived begin to crumble and he is beset by heartbreaking visions from his past.

The Dream Life of Sukhanov Summary

The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin

At the age of fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want: a glittering career, a beautiful wife and two children, a grand apartment in the smartest part of Moscow. He thinks, possibly, he has achieved his dream - 'to carve from the world around him a small, secure happiness, all his own'. Then perestroika dawns and the rigid structures of the world in which Sukhanov has thrived begin to crumble and he is beset by heartbreaking visions from his past: many years ago Sukhanov had been a brilliant young artist in Moscow, but, fearing the stifling hand of the state, he made a decision to abandon his dreams in favour of a life of comfort and, most of all, safety. Now, as the shadows of his past bring him to a terrifying state of uncertainty he begins to realise that perhaps when he compromised his dreams to live a better life, he ended up hardly living at all. Brilliantly imagined, moving and with a driving plot, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is an utterly original tale of hope and fear, youth and old age, by a remarkable new talent in contemporary fiction.

About Olga Grushin

Born in 1971 in Moscow, Olga Grushin had her early schooling in Czechoslovakia when her father, at odds with the Soviet regime, relocated the family to Prague. She returned to Moscow in 1981 to study art history and journalism, and in 1989 became the first Russian citizen to enroll in an American college degree. Her short fiction has appeared in 'Partisan Review', 'The Massachusetts Review', 'Confrontation' and 'Art Times'. She lives in Washington, D.C. and 'The Dream Life of Sukhanov' is her first novel.

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GOR002367047
9780670916092
0670916099
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20060202
368
Short-listed for Orange Award for New Writers 2006
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