Twelve Stories of Russia
A Novel I Guess
December 2001
Trade Paperback · 448 Pages
$17.00 U.S. · $19.50 CAN
ISBN 9785717200554
GLAS New Russian Writing
Trade Paperback · 448 Pages
$17.00 U.S. · $19.50 CAN
ISBN 9785717200554
GLAS New Russian Writing
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Description
Hilariously funny adventures of a young American in new Russia, about his misconceptions, blunders, and revelations, his futile attempt to love vodka, his long-distance relationship with his American aunt. In his quest he witnesses the failed coup, rampant inflation, mafia fighting, and much else.
About the Author
Tony Perry was born in 1972 in Arizona and from the age of five, after his parents divorced, lived alternatively in Arizona with his mother and in Hawaii with his father. He started learning Russian at school and then at the Russian Department of Northwestern University. He first came to Moscow in 1992 on a students' exchange program and then returned in 1994 staying for ten years. In Moscow, he gave English lessons to Russians, was involved in the tourist business, and finally married a Russian girl Natasha. He now lives in Hawaii with his wife and daughter where he divides his time between teaching and writing.