Free Book Friday: Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, Edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker

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JK Evanczuk / Friday, January 29, 2010 View Comments

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Gabe for getting a free copy of Erased by Jim Krusoe.

Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker

This week, we are giving away a copy of Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker. Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-two depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time. Translators include Nick Allen, Keith Gessen, Anna Gunin, Ellen Litman, and others. The work in this anthology reminds us that Russia’s greatest commodity and its greatest contribution to the world has not been oil and gas and armaments. Rather, it’s been the successive generations of Russian writers capable of examining life in all its emotional and intellectual restlessness, in all its complexity and intensity.

This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Tin House Books. The mission of Tin House magazine and Tin House Books remains constant: to publish compelling and authentic narratives of our time. Tin House salutes the artistic edge but remains rooted in the tenets of the classic storytelling tradition.

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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, February 5 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.

Good luck!

Edit: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner MARGARET. Try your luck again with Michiel Heyns’ The Children’s Day in the new Free Book Friday.

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Tags: Jeff Parker, Mikhail Iossel, Rasskazy, Tin House Books

Amy

Awesome give-a-way! I adore Russian lit and would love, love to own this book. Me please!
Susan

Sounds like a fantastic read!
Olivia

Sounds great, I study russian and like their literature altho I ve not read a lot of the modern stuff.
Scott Kennedy

Yes please!
Kelley

It’s about time we get some new reads. Although I love Chekov, I’d like to see the new russian literature more than the stupid book I’m reading for my Contemporary Novel (Neo-Victorian!) class at UMKC!!! Please, I am well deserved and will spread the word about the new russian short story!

KPE
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Could be a great read!
Stephanie

ME ME. ME!! I LOVE THE RUSSIAN LIT!
http://litdrift.com Tanya Paperny

Aww, man. I guess I can’t enter since I’m a LitDrift contributor…

Such a great collection!!!
http://www.jeremyrussell.com Jeremy Russell

How cleverly I am seduced to comment. This book has interested me for a long time.
http://wisb.blogspot.com/ SMD

Russian fiction = interesting stuff. So, I’m in .
http://superscriptediting.com Mead

Fascinating subject, would love to read this book — select me! Thanks for continuing this great giveaway.
http://www.likefire.org/ lisa peet

This is a good one — I’ve read a couple of excerpts and I’m verrry interested.
Mary

I’m secretly in love with my cute new Russian coworker. This book would be important … research.
Margaret

Um, um, something witty! Also I love reading foreign stuff.
http://robaroundbooks.com Rob

Not sure if this is open to international entry (UK) but I’d love to be entered into the draw. This book has been on my coveting radar for a long time now. Big fan of Russian literature
Warmest
Rob
http://robaroundbooks.com Rob

This is not another entry of course, just to support my claim above, that the book has been on my radar for a long time now, quite literally:

http://robaroundbooks.com/2009/08/on-the-radar-russian-and-european-anthologies-plus-a-tolstoy-collection-from-penguin/

Warmest
Rob
http://www.litdrift.com JK Evanczuk

Yes, UK is included in the giveaway!
http://www.lulu.com/bencmapbell Ben

We all need to learn about the new Russian writers. I am in for this.
http://decodingstatic.blogspot.com/ Andy

This sounds like an interesting book to explore, count me in!
Sue

Sounds interesting – please include me!
Grant Z

Always wanted to hear a different side of the Russian story.
http://writehandedleftie.blogspot.com wordjunkie

Sounds interesting. If India is included in the giveaway, please include me.