Pushkin Hills

Copyright © Sergei Dovlatov, 1983

Translation © Katherine Dovlatov, 2013

Notes © Alex Billington, Alma Classics

Afterword © James Wood, 2014

Pushkin Hills was first published in Russian as Запове∂нuκ in 1983

This translation first published by Alma Classics Ltd in 2013

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dovlatov, Sergei.

Pushkin hills / Sergei Dovlatov; translated by Katherine Dovlatov

[with afterword, by] James Wood.

pages cm.

Translated from Russian to English.

ISBN 978-1-61902-369-7

I. Wood, James. II. Title.

PG3479.6.O85P8713 2014

891.73’44—dc23

2013028859

Cover design by Natalya Balnova

Author photo © Nina Alovert, 1980

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