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Russophobe and fungophile

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"What do they do with the mushrooms?" Konstantin muttered, and the question didn't matter who "they" were or whether they were even talking about mushrooms: with the same intonation, he could have asked, "What do they do with people?" Z. Zinik's comedic novel is set during the Brezhnev era, against the political backdrop of the Cold War. In Soviet Moscow, Kostya, an amateur cook and mushroom picker, was obsessed with European cuisine, but after marrying an Englishwoman, Clio—a former Trotskyist and vegetarian—he became nostalgic in London for Russian cuisine, black bread, and generosity of spirit. Over time, it becomes clear that behind the simpleton and boorish joker's guise lies a sophisticated manipulator and demagogue. An international military conflict never occurs—only the personal lives of the characters in this tragicomic love story, written forty years ago but still relevant today, are catastrophically destroyed. Zinovy Zinik is a novelist and essayist. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1975 and has lived in the UK since 1976. He is the author of The Orgone Box (2017), A Yarmulke Under a Turban (2018), and My Father's Leg and Other Relics (2020), as well as Emigration as a Literary Device (2011), The Third Jerusalem (2013), No Cause for Alarm (2022), and Russian Service (2024), all published by NLO.
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