The Zero Train by Yuri Buida
Set during the Soviet era, a remote, police-run settlement called the Ninth Siding exists only for the mysterious Zero Train that halts there.
Buida, Yuri: - Yuri Buida is one of the foremost contemporary Russian writers. He was born in 1954 and is of mixed Russian, Polish, Belorussian and Ukranian descent. The question of identity runs through his fiction which tends towards mythmaking and the surreal. His novel The Zero Train was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize in 1993. His short story cycle The Prussian Bride won the prestigious Apollon Grigoriev Prize in 1999. Oliver Ready's translation for Dedalus was awarded the inaugural Russian Translation Prize in 2005.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781903517529 |
| ISBN 10 | 1903517524 |
| Title | The Zero Train |
| Author | Yuri Buida |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dedalus Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 140 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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