Publisher's Synopsis
Tokareva is one of the first of the post-Glasnost writers to come out of the Gorbachev era and write chillingly and also humorously about real life in Russia, taking ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
About the Publisher
Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.
