“The funniest book I’ve read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leaves you rolling on your floor with laughter…It will add to the sum total of your life by bringing to it a kind of happiness that you might have forgotten could be offered by book’ The Times

From Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer’s infectious love for literature, and her strange encounters with the Russian classics.