Boris Ekimov is called “the best Russian storyteller.”
“…You can’t measure such prose by awards,” claims critic A. Nemzer. “It will enter the canon.”
B. Ekimov is a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, the I. A. Bunin Prize, and the Y. Kazakov Prize. In 2008 he was awarded the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Literary Prize for the “sharpness and pain in describing… the Russian province and reflecting the indestructible dignity… of a person…”
“Greetings from Afar” is the past and present of our country and our literature.
Contents:
Greetings from Afar
On a Cossack Farm
The Earth’s Bitter Wind
At the Market
The Housewife
Kardabon
Funeral
Kyla
Who Doesn’t Love Saratov
Business
A Queue for the Next World
What the Tears Are About
Teacher Marusya
The Appointment Won’t Happen
A Raid
Chikamasov
Bay
Son-in-law
Turczok
An Enemy of the People