21st Century Literature discussion

This discussion is due to start tomorrow, so for now this is just a quick introduction.

Tatyana Tolstaya "is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family, known for her fiction and "acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life" (Wikipedia).

This book is a recent collection of her later stories, and covers a wide range of places and subject matter, with stories set in Russia, America and Western Europe, many of which read like memoirs.

A few reviews:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
https://www.newyorker.com/recommends/...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/bo...

I hope some of you will join this discussion - I found this book a very enjoyable and interesting read.

I'll second Hugh that this is an enjoyable and interesting anthology. I read this last year but will probably reread some stories during this discussion. I am impressed with how long some of the stories have stayed with me and I find myself missing Tolstaya 's humor. I think this was a good choice and members will enjoy it.

Hi, I am new to this group and actually joined it when I saw that this book is one of the selections for this month. (And I look forward to reading Spring next month.) Tolstaya's collection has been on my TBR list for too long and it motivated me to finally read it. I am so glad I did it and want to join in the praise. One of the rare books that, right upon reading it, I went back to re-read a couple of stories to my partner. Now he is reading it!

Welcome to the group Vesna.

I will open the spoiler thread(s) tomorrow. I'm not sure whether we should split it and if not how to subdivide the discussion.

Just picked it up from the library, and looking forward to it.

Somehow, the link to the Aetherial Worlds discussion on the page:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...

..is replaced by a link to Commonwealth. Can someone fix this?

Thanks for pointing that out Mark - it should be fixed now. I linked the wrong discussion folder to the bookshelf record.