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THE GOOD LIFE ELSEWHERE BY VLADIMIR LORCHENKOV
THE VERY FUNNY—AND VERY SAD—STORY OF A group of villagers and their tragicomic efforts to emigrate from Europe’s most impoverished nation to Italy for work. An Orthodox priest is deserted by his wife for an art-dealing atheist; a mechanic redesigns his tractor for travel by air and sea; and thousands of villagers take to the road on a modern-day religious crusade to make it to the Italian Promised Land. A country where 25 percent of its population works abroad, remittances make up nearly 40 percent of GDP, and alcohol consumption per capita is the world’s highest – Moldova surely has its problems. But, as Lorchenkov vividly shows, it’s also a country whose residents don’t give up easily.
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New Vessel PressAbout the Author and the Translator
SERGEI LEBEDEV was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. Lebedev is a poet, essayist and journalist. Oblivion, his first novel, was translated into many languages and published to great acclaim by New Vessel Press in 2016.
ANTONINA W. BOUIS has translated over 80 works from authors such as Evgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Sergei Dovlatov.
About the Translation and Publication Programme
Copyright
New Vessel PressFirst published in Russian in 2014 as God Komety
Copyright © 2014 Sergei Lebedev
Translation Copyright © 2017 Antonina W. Bouis
All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or website review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.
Cover design: Liana Finck
Book design: Beth Steidle
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lebedev, Sergei
[God Komety. English]
The Year of the Comet / Sergei Lebedev; translation by Antonina W. Bouis.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-939931-41-2
Library of Congress Control Number 2016915499
I. Russia—Fiction