AND THE EARTH WILL SIT ON THE MOON: ESSENTIAL STORIES (PB)

No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation, this collection contains his best-known stories - 'The Overcoat', 'The Nose' and 'Diary of a Madman' - alongside gems depicting life in the Russian and Ukrainian countryside. Together, they reveal Gogol's marvellously skewed perspective, painfully sharp humour and scorching satire. Gogol plunders the depths of bureaucratic and domestic banalities to unearth moments of dark comedy and outrageous corruption.