£19.95. Fiction. With settings that range from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Soviet-era Perestroika to present-day San Francisco, LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES, the first English-language collection from Leningrad-born author Olga Zilberbourg, looks at family and childrearing in ways both unsettling and tender, and characters who grapple with … Olga Zilberbourg is the author of LIKE WATER & OTHER STORIES, forthcoming from WTAW Press, and three Russian-language story collections, the most recent of which was published in Moscow in 2016. “Like Water and Other Stories,” explores the lives of women who have different and often competing roles and cultures. To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg with a new collection of short stories, Like Water and Other Stories (WTAW Press, 2019) Zilberbourg is a native of St. Petersburg and came of age in that cultural well-spring of literary genius. Like Water and Other Stories is a wonderful, unique gem of a book. Short Stories. With settings that range from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Soviet-era Perestroika to present-day San Francisco, LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES, the first English-language collection from Leningrad-born author Olga Zilberbourg, looks at family and childrearing in ways both unsettling and tender, and … Like Water & Other Stories On January 29, 2019 By Olga Zilberbourg In book , Like Water , Publication , Publishing , Uncategorized I’m delighted to announce my first collection of stories in English, Like Water and Other Stories , … Hardback 151 Pages / Published: 30/09/2009 We can order this; Usually dispatched within 15 working days Quantity Add to basket. Book Description: Like the author of this remarkable collection of thirteen linked stories, the protagonist, Nadia, was born and raised in Egypt, educated in England, and immigrated to the United States. Love Is Like Water and Other Stories - Arab American Writing (Hardback) Samia Serageldin (author) Sign in to write a review. Short Stories. She introduces the … This is less true for Americans who were born in the USSR such as author Olga Zilberbourg, whose first book of English-language short stories, Like Water and Other Stories, was released last fall. To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg with a new collection of short stories, “Like Water and Other Stories.” Purchase Zilberbourg is a native of St. Petersburg and came of age in that cultural well-spring of literary genius. Fiction. Product Information. Short Stories. Olga Zilberbourg | Like Water and Other Stories | WTAW Press: $16.95 In an era of ‘short shorts’ hailed in by the venerable Lydia Davis—and culminating in ‘the fragmentary’ in the recent Nobel Prize-winning work of Olga Tokarczuk—one wonders if there remains space for a new collection of shorts: stories that up-end expectation and offer … California Interest. California Interest. With settings that range from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Soviet-era Perestroika to present-day San Francisco, LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES, the first English-language collection from Leningrad-born author Olga Zilberbourg, looks at family and childrearing in ways both unsettling and tender, and … For Zilberbourg, 1992, the year after the fall, is a milestone year around which many of her stories revolve. "Like Water and Other Stories" is a Foreword INDIES finalist in Short Stories (Adult Fiction). Love Is Like Water and Other Stories. Fiction. These stories cast a clear, illuminating light on topics ranging from motherhood, the workplace, birth, death, ambition, and immigration, all explored through exquisitely wrought characters in Russia and the United States. California Interest.