Twelve Stories of Russia: A novel I guess

When an eager American moves to Moscow to teach Russians the difference between the and a he begins what will become an eventful six-and-a-half-year descent into the murky entrails of language culture and the worlds greatest metro system. Part surrealistic travelogue part historical serendipity Twelve Stories is at its most enduring as a fanciful rumination on the elusiveness of words.Twelve Stories of Russia was originally published in Moscow by the independent publisher GLAS where it quietly gained a following among expats and locals alike. Unique in its appeal to both sides of the linguistic and cultural divide the work has remained largely unknown beyond Russia. Now almost a generation after its narrators lively quest for the word that changes and is changed this emphatic novel I guess is being released to a wider audience for the first time its subject matter as universal and its themes as timely as ever.