The Galosh: And Other Stories

The Galosh and Other Stories features 65 luminous satirical tales, from a writer who recorded, “with unfailing style and wit, an era’s troubles and a people’s voice” (Los Angeles Times).

Translated from the Russian by Jeremy Hicks

Satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko was more widely read in the Soviet Union than either Pasternak or Solzhenitsyn. His stories give expression to the experience of the ordinary Soviet citizen struggling to survive in the 1920s and ‘30s, beset by an acute housing shortage...