Product Description: The Old Man veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident in the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism; suggesting this idealism may have been tainted in the first place...read more

Short novels and stories, including 'The Exchange,' 'The Long Good-bye,' 'Games at Dusk,' and 'A Short Stay in the Torture Chamber,' depict middle-class life in Moscow and the dilemmas of ordinary people when the conflicting demands on them clash