Gina Ochsner
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Gina Ochsner’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and other publications. She has won more than twenty awards, including the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Please visit www.ginaochsner.com |
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THE RUSSIAN DREAMBOOK OF COLOR AND FLIGHT Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 2010 Genre: General Fiction Foreign Sales |
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“A heartbreaking comic masterpiece”—The Guardian (UK) Longlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction, Gina Ochsner’s debut novel has won praise for its moving, hopeful depiction of life in post-Soviet Russia. In her dusty provincial museum of fake exhibits lovingly crafted from cardboard, wire and glue, Tanya dreams of color and flight, hopelessly wondering when Yuri will stop fishing long enough to notice how she adores him. When Tanya’s boss at the All-Russian All-Cosmopolitan City Museum gives Tanya the vast responsibility of persuading American benefactors to donate money to the museum, Tanya enlists the help of her unusual group of neighbors, inspiring them to dream beyond the poverty that imprisons them. |
