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This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities. Their authors live not only in Russia, but also in Europe and the US. Short stories in this volume display a vast spectrum of subgenres, from grotesque absurdist stories to lyrical essays, from realistic narratives to fantastic parables. Taken together, they display rich and complex cultural and intellectual reality of contemporary Russia, in which political, social, and ethnic conflicts of today coexist with themes and characters resonating with classical literature, albeit invariably twisted and transformed in an unpredictable way. Most of texts in this volume appear in English for the first time. 21 may be useful for college courses but will also provide exciting reading for anyone interested in contemporary Russia.

Russian prose literature --- Russian prose literature. --- Short stories, Russian --- Short stories, Russian. --- 2000-2099. --- Aleksandr Ilichevsky. --- Aleksey Tsvetkov Jr. --- Arkady Babchenko. --- Denis Osokin. --- Elena Dolgopyat. --- Evgeny Shklovsky. --- Kirill Kobrin. --- Lara Vapnyar. --- Leonid Kostyukov. --- Linor Goralik. --- Margarita Khemlin. --- Maria Boteva. --- Marianna Geide. --- Nikolai Baitov. --- Nikolai Kononov. --- Pavel Pepperstein. --- Polina Barskova. --- Russia. --- Russian culture. --- Russian fiction. --- Russian literature. --- Russian short stories. --- Russian writers. --- Sergei Soloukh. --- Short stories. --- Stanislav Lvovsky. --- Valery Votrin. --- Vladimir Sorokin. --- contemporary Russia. --- contemporary fiction. --- diversity in writing. --- early 21st century. --- fiction. --- literature in translation. --- prose. --- short fiction. --- twenty first century. --- twenty-first century.