The Galosh: And Other Stories

by Mikhail Zoshchenko

Book Overview

The Galosh and Other Stories features 65 luminous satirical tales, from a writer who recorded, "with unfailing style and wit, an era's troubles and a people's voice" (Los Angeles Times).
Translated from the Russian by Jeremy Hicks
In his prime, satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko was more widely read in the Soviet Union than either Pasternak or Solzhenitsyn. His stories give expression to the experience of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590202112
• ISBN13: 9781590202111
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

The more things change.....

This book of very, very short stories is delightful and does indeed bring to mind the old saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same". These stories written over eighty years ago are a window into life in the new "Soviet Union" of the 1920's and perhaps a window into life in modern day Russia as well. With black humor Zoshchenko describes the trials of living in an uncertain world which just might not be an improvement on the lost world of the czars. Loved this book.