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
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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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