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One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year

From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted—Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully!—to the Russian Classics.

No one who read Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac Babel. Over the...

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Awards Literature Literary Criticism Essays Russian Literature General & Miscellaneous Russian Literature - Literary Criticism American Essays Books from the 2007 Winners of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards Publishers Weekly's Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2010 Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Magazine's Best Books of 2010 Salon's Best Nonfiction of 2010 Slate's Favorite Nonfiction of 2010 Boston Globe Best Nonfiction of 2010 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Other Awards Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards Books from the Winners of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards Best Books of the Year Best Books of the Year 2010 Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2010 New York Times Best Books of 2010 Christian Science Monitor's Best Books of 2010 New York Magazine's Best Books of 2010 Salon's Best Books of 2010 Slate's Favorite Books of 2010 Boston Globe Best Books of 2010 National Book Critics Circle Awards Previous Finalists - National Book Critics Circle Awards

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

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