Andrei Platonov: 2 books

In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and...

How was it possible that an entire country could live in mute fear? Why did Soviet intellectuals denounce on another an conspire with the authorities to brainwash ordinary people? Why did Soviet submarines sink and nuclear power stations explode? This collection answers to some extent, the questions...