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Kseniya Melnik - Snow in May - 9780007548705 - KCW0007266
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Snow in May

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Description for Snow in May Hardcover. SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE The stories of Kseniya Melnik's debut collection are small-town miracles, each a miniature epic. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 422. Very good copy in good dustwrappers

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

The stories of Kseniya Melnik’s debut collection are small-town miracles, each a miniature epic.

Their focus is Magadan, a town in the Northern Far East of Russia, and the unvisited lives of its inhabitants and emigrants – schoolchildren, doctors, teachers, mothers, daughters. Some characters span several stories. Some of their stories span decades and continents. The measure of their telling, though, is invariably the measure of everyday existence. Their dramas, too, are made of ... Read more

Kseniya Melnik’s sensibility is sober and humorous; her stories are moving and funny. In their patient, deliberate unfolding – at once surprising and convincing – and in the fitness of their details – vital because they are suggestive – we sense, above all, an assurance that is dazzling.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007548705
SKU
KCW0007266
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Kseniya Melnik
Kseniya Melnik was born in Magadan in the northeast of Russia and immigrated to Alaska in 1998, at the age of fifteen. She earned an MFA from New York University and her work has appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Epoch, Prospect, Virginia Quarterly Review, and was selected for Granta's New Voices series. She lives in El Paso, Texas.

Reviews for Snow in May
A New Yorker "Page-Turner" Book to Watch Out For An Amazon "Best of the Month" pick for Literature and Fiction A New York Public Library Book Notes pick ... Read more

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