World Literature Today, March 22nd, 1998
Nina Sadur. Cathy Porter, ed. London. Harbord. 1997. 159 pages. [pounds]8.99. ISBN 1-899414-15-0.
Nina Sadur is a remarkable Russian short-story writer whose prose is translated into English for the first time in the haunting collection Witch's Tears and Other Stories. Born in 1950, she is better known as a dramatist, but these nine stories and one novella reveal her as one of the most individual and interesting voices in contemporary,' Russian women's writing. Sadur's distinctive style, less overtly literary than that of her contemporary, Tatiana Tolstava and less ruthlessly unadorned than...
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