Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Frank Tashlin the elephants

the elephants

A communal apartment in late Soviet-era Moscow

otherwise in Very Good condition

new and imaginative geographies

Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Frank Tashlin the elephantsBefore and During by Vladimir Sharov, translated by Oliver Ready ISBN 9781907650710 348 page paperback from Dedalus European Classics *** Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past. We meet Leo Tolstoy's twin brother, eaten by the great writer in his mother's womb, only to be born