Author: KAZAKOV, Yury
Title: The Smell of Bread and Other Stories: [Zapah Hleba]. Translated from the Russian by Manya Harari and Andrew Thomson.
Description: London, Harvill Press, 1965. First edition in English. In original price-clipped dust-wrapper attractively designed by Brian Russell, 256 pp. A good, clean tight copy. Dust-wrapper a little age grubby, negligible damp spotting to fore-edges. ???? ???????? ???????. Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov (1927 - 1982) started out as a jazz musician but emerged as a writer, mainly of short stories, only in the 1960s. He was much admired by Paustovsky, Shklovsky and Ehrenburg and has often been compared to Chekhov and Bunin.

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