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Author: Simon, Claude
Translator: Cross, Jim
Afterword by: Oppenheim, Louis
Designed by: Oppenheim, Lois
ISBN:978-0-916583-90-3
Publication Date:Aug 1992
Publisher:Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint:Dalkey Archive Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $9.95USD $9.95
Book Description:

This 1987 novel by Nobel Prize-winner Claude Simon is a sardonic look at glasnost Russia, where recent reforms and improvements carry all the conviction of rouge on a corpse. The narrator is one of fifteen international guests who have been invited on a goodwill tour of the new Soviet Union. Whisked from one staged event to another, from Moscow to Central Asia, enduring hours of rigid Soviet hospitality, the guests react with varying degrees of stupefaction and disgust to a society...
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Book Details
Pages:80
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.52 x 8.49 x 0.26 Inches
Book Weight:0.27 Pounds
Author Biography
Simon, Claude (Author)
Claude Simon was born on October 10, 1913 in Tananarive, Madagascar. He was educated at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, Oxford University, Cambridge University, and the André Lhote Academy. He traveled extensively through Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Greece until he joined the French Army during World War II, where he was captured by the Germans but soon escaped to join the Resistance.

After the war ended, he wrote several books including The Cheat, The Wind, and The Flanders Road. He received several awards including the prize of l'Express in 1961, the Médicis prize in 1967, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985. He died in Paris France in July 6, 2005.

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