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and Other Stories
by Tom BissellSometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, but always eerily affecting, these stories show us deeply foreign lands and peoples through our own eyes.
Here are six
fictional stories about Americans colliding with a remote and often perilous
part of the world:
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, but always eerily affecting, these
stories show us deeply foreign lands and peoples through our own eyes.
Impressive in both range and emotional acuity, God Lives in St. Petersburg is a
stunning fictional debut by a "wildly talented" (Outside) young writer.
Six stories set in Central Asia, one of them a Pushcart Prize winner, written with deadpan irony and packing quite a punch...continued
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About the author & the Aral Sea: In 2001 Tom Bissell traveled throughout Uzbekistan, spending some time in Muynak. Forty years ago Muynak was a busy fishing port on the edge of the Aral Sea, which was formerly the fourth largest inland sea in the world but now, due to 40 years of Soviet irrigation policy, is mostly polluted desert. He recorded his thoughts and observations in a memoir, Chasing The Sea, published in 2003, which combined the story of his travels with a chronicle of Uzbekistan's culture and history. His second book, God Lives in St Petersburg,...
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