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Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the seemingly undistinguished items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes the bittersweet story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crepe socks bring back memories of his partly successful attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Full title: Suitcase
• Author: Sergei Dovlatov
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9781847492791
• ISBN: 1847492797
• ID: 01224649
• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd.
• Weight: 166 g
• Dimensions: 134 × 198 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. January 2013

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