The Big Green Tent

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Copyright © 2010 by Ludmila Ulitskaya

Translation copyright © 2015 by Bela Shayevich

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Originally published in Russian in 2010 by Eksmo, Russia, as Зеленый шатер

English translation published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First American edition, 2015

An excerpt from The Big Green Tent originally appeared, in different form, in The New Yorker.

Published by arrangement with ELKOST International Literary Agency, Barcelona, Spain

Grateful acknowledgment is made to University of California Press Books for permission to reprint an excerpt from “To an army wife, in Sardis,” by Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard, from Sappho: A New Translation.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ulitskaia, Liudmila.

[Zelenyi shater. English]

The big green tent / Ludmila Ulitskaya; translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich. — First American edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-374-16667-0 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-70971-6 (ebook)

1. Male friendship—Soviet Union—Fiction. 2. Soviet Union—Social conditions—1945–1991—Fiction. 3. Soviet Union—Intellectual life—Fiction. I. Shayevich, Bela, translator. II. Title.

PG3489.2 .L58Z4513 2014

891.73'5—dc23

2014016972

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Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation, Russia.