short fiction on contemporary Volgograd and/or Odessa

[Carol Avins]

Dear colleagues,

I'm assisting an American group traveling next spring to Volgograd and to Odessa (they're with a non-project organization involved in some projects in both cities, including work on inter-religious and inter-ethnic tolerance). I've been asked to suggest relevant short readings (a short story, perhaps, and/or some journalism)  that members of the group might do in preparation for the trip. These would have to be available in English, though I could translate things like newspaper articles.

I would welcome your help in identifying short fiction set in contemporary Volgograd or Odessa (the historical background reading is not a problem) and notable essays or newspaper articles.  (If your suggestions are only in Russian, please send them anyway: I'd like to have a sense of what's worth reading, whether translated yet or not.)

With thanks,

Carol Avins
avins at rci.rutgers.edu
Professor Emerita
Rutgers University




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