{"product_id":"9781681371726","title":"White Walls: Collected Stories","description":"“Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.” –\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTatyana  Tolstaya’s short stories—with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots,  appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and  flair—established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia’s finest  writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world.  Edna O’Brien has called Tolstaya “an enchantress.” Anita Desai has  spoken of her work’s “richness and ardent life.” Mixing heartbreak and  humor, dizzying flights of fantasy and plunging descents to earth,  Tolstaya is the natural successor in a great Russian literary lineage  that includes Gogol, Yuri Olesha, Bulgakov, and Nabokov.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Walls\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive collection of Tolstaya’s short fiction to be  published in English so far. It presents the contents of her two  previous collections, \u003ci\u003eOn the Golden Porch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSleepwalker in a Fog\u003c\/i\u003e,  along with several previously uncollected stories. Tolstaya writes of  lonely children and lost love, of philosophers of the absurd and poets  working as janitors, of angels and halfwits. She shows how the  extraordinary will suddenly erupt in the midst of ordinary life, as she  explores the human condition with a matchless combination of unbound  imagination and unapologetic sympathy.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165370368240,"sku":"9781681371726","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681371726_p0.jpg?v=1763692851","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681371726","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}