Join the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies for a discussion of Olga Grushin's The Dream Life of Sukhanov, featuring the author herself in conversation.
Published in 2006 and described by the Washington Post as "sophisticated, ironic and witty, multilayered, intricately constructed, deeply informed, elegantly written," The Dream Life of Sukhanov is set in the Moscow of early perestroika, a city on the brink of deep political and cultural change. It is the story of Anatoly Sukhanov, an art critic and member of the cultural elite who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real to the surreal and from privilege to paranoia, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a darkly funny novel.
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