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Bessarabian Stamps: Stories by Oleg Woolf
February 27, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Join us on March 27 at 5pm PST| 8pm EST for a discussion of Bessarabian Stamps: Stories by Oleg Woolf and translated from the Russian, by Boris Dralyuk, Phoneme Media, 2015.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItduusqD4oHdzY4Fqam7Uav1F40xThF-Of
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Bessarabian-Stamps-Stories-Oleg-Woolf/dp/193941928X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=261WUL0TM499G&keywords=bessarabia+stamps&qid=1645029179&sprefix=bessara%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-2
Reminiscent of Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles, Oleg Woolf’s Bessarabian Stamps — a cycle of sixteen stories set mostly in the village of Sănduleni, in the Republic of Moldova— is a vivid, surreal evocation of a liminal world. Sănduleni’s denizens are in permanent flux, forever shifting languages, cultures, and states, in every sense of the word. With a warm, Bessarabian irony recalling one of Eastern Europe’s long-forgotten regions, the Stampsexplore what it means to live on the edges of empires, which rise and fall while Sănduleni abides.