The Compromise
Sergei Dovlatov
Trans. by Anne Frydman

Category: Fiction/Translation (Russian)
Format: Trade paperback, 148pp, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN: 0-89733-353-5
Price: $15.95

About the Book

Based on Dovlatov's experiences as a journalist in the Soviet Republic of Estonia, this is an acidly comic picture of ludicrous bureaucratic ineptitude, which obviously still continues.

Reviews

"A dourly funny novel."––Atlantic Monthly

"Teems with life and ironic humor."––San Francisco Chronicle

"Dangerously, involuntarily, uproariously subversive."––Village Voice

". . . with a light, lyrical touch he sketches in a society in which horrors are simply part of the scenery."––The Nation