Rabbits and Boa Constrictors
- ISBN-10
- 0715649868
- ISBN-13
- 9780715649862
- Category
- Allegory
- Pages
- 183
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-03-26
- Publisher
- Duckworth Overlook
- Author
- Iskander Fazil
Description
Praised by The New York Times Book Review as "an Abkhazian Mark Twain," Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed writers in the Soviet Union--and also one of the funniest. In Rabbits and Boa Constrictors, Iskander the story of a struggle between . . . well, rabbits and boa constrictors, which is really a struggle between the manipulators and the manipulated as they try to function in a failed utopia.
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