<p>Three subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, each burrowing into a turning point in a person's life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a musty, semi-abandoned inn in the haunted depths of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the city of Sevastopol and a Russian painter portraying Crimean War soldiers. <p>Inspired by Tolstoy's The Sevastopol Sketches, Emilio Fraia masterfully weaves together these stories of yearning and loss, obsession and madness, failure and the desire to persist, in a restrained manner reminiscent of Anton Chekhov, Roberto Bolano, and Rachel Cusk.</p></p>

Sevastopol

Literature & Fiction

Fraia, Emilio

United States

New Directions

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Fraia, Emilio. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Fraia, Emilio

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Fraia, Emilio. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Sevastopol