Suitcase

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• Publisher: Alma Books
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780714548319
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the seemingly undistinguished items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes the bittersweet story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crepe socks bring back memories of his partly successful attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer. Contains: The Finnish Crepe Socks, The Nomenklatura Half-boots, A Decent Double-Breasted Suit, An Offiicer's Belt, FernandLeger's Jacket, A Poplin Shirt, The Winter Hat, The Driving Gloves, Instead of an Afterword

Table of contents

• The Suitcase
• The Suitcase
• Foreword
• The Finnish Crêpe Socks
• The Nomenklatura Half-boots
• A Decent Double-Breasted Suit
• An Officer’s Belt
• Fernand Léger’s Jacket
• A Poplin Shirt
• The Winter Hat
• The Driving Gloves
• Instead of an Afterword
• Notes