Boris Fishman
Suffering the hangover from decades of totalitarian rule, Eastern Europe since 1989 has been a crossroads of political upheaval, cowboy commerce, old hatreds, and new licentiousness: in other words, fertile ground for a new literature. In this unique and timely anthology, twelve of todayâ€™s best young writers prove the point in exploring one of the most fractious, mercurial, maladjusted, and misunderstood corners of the globe.,Drug-addled New Russians preaching the gospel of high finance on Nevsky Prospekt; a UNESCO chiefâ€™s pressing need for a Parisian blowtorch in Sniperâ€™s Alley in Sarajevo; the romantic entanglements and divided loyalties of an alluring Czech intelligence officer caught up in the Velvet Revolution; a diplomatâ€™s son on a hedonistic spree in a Central Asian republicâ€“these are the subjects of ,Wild East,, a collection of passionate, raucous stories about the bohemians, danger junkies, and thrill-seekers reveling in the cultural, social, political, and sexual renaissance that followed the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Short Stories,Cultural,Russia
Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier