Snow White and Russian Red
Nails” Robakoski is unraveling after his girlfriend Magda dumps him. A tracksuited slacker who spends most of his time doing little more than searching for his next line of speed and dreaming up conspiracy theories about the Polish economy, Nails ricochets from Magda, a doomed beauty who...
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Nails” Robakoski is unraveling after his girlfriend Magda dumps him. A tracksuited slacker who spends most of his time doing little more than searching for his next line of speed and dreaming up conspiracy theories about the Polish economy, Nails ricochets from Magda, a doomed beauty who bewitches men, to Angela, a proselytizing vegetarian Goth, to Natasha, a hellcat who tears his house apart looking for speed, to Ala, the nerdy economics-student girlfriend of the friend who stole Magda. Through it all, a xenophobic campaign against the proliferating Russian black market escalates, to the point where the citizens have to paint their houses in national colors and one of these girls will be crowned Miss No Russkies Dayor is that just in Nails’ fevered mind?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802170019 (0802170013)
Publish date: February 3rd 2005
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Surreal,
Polish Literature,
Poland,
Fiction
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