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The Dream Life of Sukhanov

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

A brilliantly crafted novel about one man’s betrayal of his talent, his friends, and his principles-a work of demon energy, startling imagery, and utter originality.

At fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want. Nearly twenty-five years ago, he traded his precarious existence as a brilliant underground artist for the perks and comforts of a high-ranking Soviet apparatchik. Once he created art; now he censors it. His past is a shadow, repressed to the point of nonexistence. But a series of increasingly bizarre events transforms his perfect world into a nightmare. Buried dreams return to haunt him, his life begins to unravel, new political alignments in the Kremlin threaten to undo him, and little by little, he finds himself losing everything he sold his soul to gain.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Olga
Grushin

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Russia, USA
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc.

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