Award-Winning Robert Chandler to Sign Copies at MLA

[Jacquelyn Moorad]

NYRB CLASSICS is pleased to announce a book signing by award-winning Slavic
translator Robert Chandler:

Robert Chandler will sign copies of his translations of Andrey Platonov's
Soul and Other Stories and Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate at the New York
Review Books booth at the 2007 Modern Language Association's annual meeting.

Saturday, December 29th, 4:30 - 5:30 PM. 
Booth 814, MLA Exhibit Hall,  Hyatt Regency

Soul and Other Stories
Andrey Platonov
Translated and introduced by Robert Chandler
Afterword by John Berger
The Russian Andrey Platonov is increasingly recognized as one of the
greatest of twentieth-century writers of fiction, and Soul offers a
selection of his finest stories. On Robert Chandler's translation, The
Observer wrote, "Rarely does literature come this close to being music."

Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Introduction by Robert Chandler
“Grossman’s account of Soviet life – penal, military and civilian – is
encyclopedic and unblinkered...enormously impressive...A significant
addition to the great library of smuggled Russian works.”—The New York Times
Book Review


Please visit http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/11616 for more information
on Robert Chandler and NYRB Classics.

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