Eleven Prague corpses : stories /

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Author / Creator:Kobrin, Kirill, 1964- author.
Uniform title:Short stories. Selections. English
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.
©2016
Description:157 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10829692
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Varying Form of Title:11 Prague corpses
Other authors / contributors:Lakotová, Veronika, translator.
ISBN:9781628971347
1628971347
Notes:Collection of stories that appeared in various Russian magazines and also online.
Translated from the original Russian into English.
Summary:Prague is a place where murders happen, and it takes an English-speaking Russian expat with a strong antipathy for the city and its inhabitants to solve the mystery . . . or maybe not. As the plots thicken, the two narrators of Kirill Kobrin's ten short stories gradually merge into a single hazy, undefined personality, characterized by a passion for logical reasoning, which leads to the identification of the culprit; except that the laboriously constructed murder narrative may stand or fall on a typo, and the mentally satisfying conclusion may or may not have much to do with reality ...