White Walls: Collected Stories

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Copyright © 1987,1991, 2006, 2007 by Tatyana Tolstaya

Translations copyrighted as follows: “Loves Me, Loves Me Not,” “Okkcrvil River,” “Sweet Shura,” “On the Golden Porch,” “Hunting the Wooly Mammoth,” “The Circle,” “A Clean Sheet,” “Date with a Bird,” “Sweet Dreams, Son,” “Sonya,” “The Fakir,” and “Peters” © 1990; “Fire and Dust” copyright © 1986, “Sleepwalker in a Fog,” “Serafim,” “The Moon Came Out,” “Night,” “Heavenly Flame,” “Most Beloved,” “The Poet and the Muse,” “Limpopo” © 1991, “Yorick” © 2006, “White Walls” © 2000, and “See the Other Side” © 2007 by Jamey Gambrell

Tolstaia, Tat’iana, 1951 May 3-

[Short stories. English. Selections]

White walls : collected stories / by Tatyana Tolstaya ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis and Jamey Gambrell.

p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-197-4 (alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-59017-197-7 (alk. paper)

1. Tolstaia, Tat’iana, 1951 May 3– —Translations into English.

I. Gambrell, Jamey. II. Bouis, Antonina W. III. Title.

PG3489.0476A2 2007

891.7344—dc22

2007005450

ISBN 978-1-59017-197-4

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.

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