Stargorod: A Novel in Many Voices

Table of Contents

Author’s Preface

1990

Above the Fray

Twenty Years

Sour Cream

The Living Well of the Desert

Iron Logic

Blessed are...

Mashenka

Clever Elsa

Stargorod Vendetta

Two-Hats

A Miracle and a Vision

The Magic Letter

Eeny, meeny, miney, moe

Petty Officer

Star

Devil’s Bride

Petrushka

The Man with a Sense of Humor

Lukeria’s Hill

Greed

Victory

Lady Macbeth

Fortress

Metamorphoses, or The Art of Instant Transformation

Vladik Kuznetsov

The Real Life

Ox and Mother Love

The Fourth Dimension

2010

A Change of Consciousness

The Horizontal and The Vertical

53:76

Pickle and Little Dragon

The Holy Monkey

Wings

Cat and Dregs

How a Soldier Saved Himself from the Army

Boots and Ballet Slippers

Winds of Change

The Cursed Place

Demons Possess Us

Medici

Candy

The Mermaid

Happiness

The Hourglass

Goats and Sheep

Our Progress

Kindness

Kambiz

Reptile

Karaoke

The Magic Letter

Stone Soup

Beauty and the Beast

Bribe

Institute of Dreams

A Caramel Rooster for Christmas

The Pencil Stub