Born November 18, 1946 in Moscow, Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Pyetsukh is a prolific writer of both fiction and essays. Having taught high-school history and Russian for more than a decade, he embarked on a successful career as one of Russia's most published contemporary authors, quickly becaming a major figure of the late-Soviet period and thereafter. He has published fifteen collected editions of his work, and both his essays and short stories appear regularly in leading Russian journals. Pyetsukh and his wife Irina, an art dealer, divide their time between Moscow and a village in Tverskaya. Born and raised in Toronto, Krystyna Steiger is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, she received her PhD in Russian Literature from McGill University in Montreal, where she currently resides and works as a freelance literary translator.
"a snarl, delightfully tangled, of philosophy, humor, and humanity;
it's not unlike the lives we live."
-- David Cozy, Review of Contemporary Fiction
"Despite the seriousness of Pyetsukh's idea, it is refreshingly
comical. The book's mock-historical narrative tone is self-aware,
both embracing and mocking its grand aspirations."
-- Necessary Fiction
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