Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-three depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time. “What’s new is the rhythm and snap of the hip, modern, contemporary voices that we would expect to hear rattling into a cell phone in the booth next to ours, and the rendering of that voice into an English that’s as idiomatic and confident as we imagine these speakers to be. . . . How fortunate we are . . . that we now have Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia” —from the introduction by Francine Prose

This book is a compilation of fairy tales, anecdotes, and descriptions of taboos and traditions in Negidal with parallel Russian translations. Negidal, a Northern Tungusic minority language of the Russian Federation, is on the verge of extinction, with only a handful of speakers of varying proficiency left. These live on the Amgun' river in the Russian Far East. The texts included here were recorded in the 1990s and from 2005-2010. The original audio recordings are available online in the Endangered Languages Archive: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MP11041287. The volume is primarily intended for educational purposes for lessons of Negidal language and culture, but will also be of use to readers with an interest in the languages and cultures of the Russian Far East.

Featuring some of Russia's most prestigious post-Soviet writers, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia portrays the range of aesthetics and subject matter faced by a generation that never knew Communism. Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-two depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time.