Rabbits and Boa Constrictors: A Novel

Fazil Iskander

Harry N. Abrams, Nov 4, 2014 - Fiction - 192 pages

Praised by The New York Times Book Review as "an Abkhazian Mark Twain," Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed writers in the Soviet Union--and also one of the funniest. In Rabbits and Boa Constrictors, Iskander tells the story of a struggle between . . . well, rabbits and boa constrictors, which is really a struggle between the manipulators and the manipulated as they try to function in a failed utopia. (Sound familiar?)

About the author

Fazil Iskander was born in 1929, in Sukhumi, in the Soviet Union. He is the author of many stories, novels, and novellas, including The Goatibex Constellation and Sandro of Chegem. In 2010 he was awarded the Russian Order of Merit for the Fatherland. He lives in Moscow.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rabbits and Boa Constrictors: A Novel
• Author: Fazil Iskander
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2014
• ISBN: 1468309706, 9781468309706
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General