The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight

The tenants of a post-Soviet slum face the absurdity of Russian life in this Flannery O’Connor Award–winning debut novel “of startling redemptive beauty” ( The New York Times Book Review ). In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there’s a ghost who won’t keep quiet.   Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to heckle the living: his wife, Azade; Olga, a disillusioned translator/censor for a military newspaper; Yuri, an army veteran who