The Loss
Makanin, Vladimir / Wachtel, Andrew Baruch / Lindsey, Byron
The novella and two short stories that make up this volume of Vladimir Makanin's work were written during three different periods of the author's life, yet they are united by their narrative and stylistic invention, their range of human emotion, and the profound humanity of their prose.In the first story, "Klyucharyov and Alimushkin", one man becomes remarkably lucky while another man loses all his luck. This nuanced and elliptical story has t...