a funny book, anyone?

[Susan Bauckus]

I can contribute a partial answer to Amarilis' question about whether the humorous books mentioned in the recent thread are available in English. Dovlatov's "Ours" is a series of sketches/stories, each devoted to a family member, including one about his dog. It's out of print but available used at Amazon and hopefully elsewhere as well. It's all terrific but the story about how he met his wife (The Colonel Says I Love you, Russian title: Polkovnik govorit, ljublju) deals also with life as a Soviet-era dissident, emigration, and immigration, and reading it makes you happy to be alive. 

Susan Bauckus
UCLA Center for World Languages
www.international.ucla.edu
Heritage Language Journal
www.heritagelanguages.org
Language Materials Project
www.lmp.ucla.edu
LA Language World
www.lalamag.ucla.edu

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