The Kukotsky Enigma: A Novel

Northwestern University Press

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English translation copyright © 2016 by Diane Nemec Ignashev. Published 2016 by Northwestern University Press. Originally published in Russian as The Kukotsky Case (Казус Кукоцкого), copyright © 2001 by Ludmila Ulitskaya. Published by arrangement with ELKOST International Literary Agency. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Uli͡tska͡ia, L͡iudmila, author. | Nemec Ignashev, Diane, 1951– translator.

Title: The Kuko͡tsky enigma : a novel / Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated from the Russian by Diane Nemec Ignashev.

Other titles: Kazus Kukotskogo. English

Description: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016007590| ISBN 9780810133488 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780810133495 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Gynecologists—Soviet Union—Fiction. | Abortion—Government policy—Soviet Union—Fiction. | Families—Soviet Union—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PG3489.2.L58 K3913 2016 | DDC 891.735—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016007590

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