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The Rat Killer By Alexander Terekhov
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- The Rat Killer
- ISBN
- 9781846880537
- Book Title
- Rat Killer
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Humorous / General
- Item Weight
- 11.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 394 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Alma Books
ISBN-10
184688053X
ISBN-13
9781846880537
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038670252
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rat Killer
Number of Pages
394 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
General, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
'"I like The Rat-Killer . . . I always do like these sardonic Russian tales-a genre on their own-that take satire to its extreme." -Doris Lessing, Nobel Prizewinner in Literature, "Packed with forceful imagery and the slang of modern Russian . . . a racy read which is at the same time an extended metaphor and a satirical novel very much in the Russian tradition." - Moscow Times
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
891.735
Synopsis
Rats and human beings aren t alwaysthat far apart from each other. As the political intrigue of phantasmagorical postcommunist reality develops into nightmare, the greed, cunning, and malice of the humans more and more resemble the behavior of the large communities of destructive rodents, while the rats acquire more and more human features. Svetloyar is bidding to be included in the list of historical towns making up Russia s famous "Golden Ring" a lucrative tourist route around Moscow.Aside from the problem that it has no history, having been entirely constructed during the Stalinist period, the place is overrun by ratsand two pest-controllers are summoned from Moscow. What follows is an astute interrogation of the nature of both humanity and history, as the narrator s desire for the regional dictator s wife sits subtly alongside his perpetual concern for the destruction of rats. While clearly in the classical Russian tradition, the novel also incorporates the more experimental and satirical aesthetic of Soviet writers such as Bulgakov, and as the narrator s perception of reality becomes increasingly warped, so does our experience of the almost comically grotesque landscape around him."
LC Classification Number
PG3489.E673
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