| Sweet Snow Contributor(s): Motyl, Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 0988371375 ISBN-13: 9780988371378 Publisher: Cervena Barva Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013936882 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6" W x 9" (0.52 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sweet Snow is set in the Ukraine in the winter of 1933. While a terrible famine rages in the countryside, the secret police are arresting suspected spies in the cities. A German aristocrat from Prussia, a Jewish communist from New York, a Polish diplomat from Lviv, and a Ukrainian nationalist from Vienna come to share a cell. As they are being transported, their van overturns and they are freed - to wander amidst the devastated villages, desolate landscapes, and frozen corpses. As they struggle to survive, they come to grips with the horror of the famine as well as with their own delusions, weaknesses, and mortality. |
Contributor Bio(s): Motyl, Alexander: - Alexander Motyl is a writer, painter, and professor. He is the author of four novels, Whiskey Priest, Who Killed Andrei Warhol, The Jew Who Was Ukrainian, and SWEET SNOW, and two novellas, Flippancy and My Orchidia; his poems have appeared in Mayday, Counterexample Poetics, Istanbul Literary Review, Orion Headless, The Battered Suitcase, Red River Review, Green Door, and New York Quarterly. He has done performances of his fiction and poetry at the Cornelia Street Cafe and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York. Motyl's artwork is represented on the Internet gallery, www.artsicle.com, and has been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Philadelphia, Westport, and Toronto. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark and lives in New York. |
