Alik's loved ones gather at his cramped, stiflingly hot... Ludmila Ulitskaya, trans. from the Russian by Bela Shayevich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-374-16667-0 The latest ...

Ludmila Ulitskaya was born in 1943 in the Urals, graduated from Moscow University with a Degree of Master in Biology. She worked in the Institute of Genetics as a scientist. Shortly before Perestroika ...