Ludmila UlitskayaThe Big Green Tent
Sprecher: Davis, Jonathan / Übersetzer: Gannon, Polly
Ludmila Ulitskaya is one of Russia's most popular and renowned literary figures. A former scientist and the director of Moscow's Hebrew Repertory Theater, she is the author of fourteen works of fiction, three tales for children, and six plays that have been staged by a number of theaters in Russia and Germany. She has won Russia's Man Booker Prize and was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize. A strong advocate for freedom of expression, she recently published a volume of her correspondence with the imprisoned Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Contents
Prologue
Those Wondrous School Years
The New Teacher
Children of the Underworld
The LORLs
The Last Ball
Friendship of the Peoples
The Big Green Tent
Love in Retirement
Orphans All
King Arthur's Wedding
A Tad Too Tight
The Upper Register
Girlfriends
The Dragnet
The Angel with the Outsize Head
The House with the Knight
The Coffee Stain
The Fugitive
The Deluge
Hamlet's Ghost
A Good Ticket
Poor Rabbit
The Road with One End
Deaf-mute Demons
Milyutin Park
First in Line
The Decorated Underpants
The Imago
A Russian Story
Ende Gut-
Epilogue: The End of a Beautiful Era
Acknowledgments
Translator's Note
