Sonechka

Copyright © 2005 by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Schocken and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. The novella “Sonechka” was originally published in Russian in Novyi Mir, (Na7) Moscow, in 1992. An earlier version of the translation of “Sonechka” by Arch Tait appeared in “Sonechka and Other Stories,” Glas New Russian Writing, no. 17, Moscow, in 1998. All of the remaining stories in this collection were originally published in Russia as Pervye i poslednie, by Izdatel’stvo “Eksmo,” Moscow, in 2002. Copyright © 2002 by L. Ulitskaia.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ulitskaia, Liudmila.

[Short stories. English. Selections]

Sonechka: a novella and stories / Ludmila Ulitskaya ;

translated from the Russian by Arch Tait.

p. cm.

I. Tait, A. L. II. Title.

PG3489.2.L58A28 2005

891.73’5—dc22 2004059154

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