Description: Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia's counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. Grin's ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters.
Brief description: Bryan Karetnyk is a Wolfson Scholar in the Humanities at University College London. He has translated several novels by Gaito Gazdanov, including The Spectre of Alexander Wolf (2013) and The Flight (2016), and he is also the editor and principal translator of the anthology Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky (2017).
Review Quotes: Grin's prose is beautiful, evocative and striking... Fandango is a marvellous collection of stories and Alexander Grin is obviously a writer whose works have been unjustly neglected.--Karen Langley "Shiny New Books"