An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskys fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mindbending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovskys most dazzling conceits a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his rooms previous