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In Sentence, Mikhail Iossel performs a remarkable juggling act between genres and countries. Can you write a "Russian" sentence in English? The author has found a perfect syntactical solution to the opposition of past and present in this groundbreaking collection of one-sentence stories: everything is simultaneous, breathless, in a dizzying…

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1 author picked Sentence as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Stream of consciousness with a Russian accent, laced with biting Soviet-Jewish humor makes this an extraordinary read that you can't put down. If you do, some chapters are pages long but only one sentence. If you stop in the middle, you'll have to start all over again to stay in the flow. A dazzling feat, at times.

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