Episode 5
Sukhanov is assailed by self-doubt as his wife, son and cousin all challenge and perturb him and, in a dream, he relives his father's death.
Sukhanov's cousin and erstwhile lodger challenges his thinking on the painter Dali. His drunk son Vasily challenges everything about the way in which his father has lived his life in the last thirty years, and his wife Nina goes to the theatre without him, wearing new silver earrings and scented with lily of the valley cologne.
Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971 and spent her childhood in Moscow and Prague. In 1989 she became the first Soviet citizen to enrol for a full-time degree in the United States while retaining Soviet citizenship. In 2006 she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. She has published two novels: The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) and The Concert Ticket (published in the US as The Line) in April 2010. Olga lives in Washington D.C.
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne
Directed by Marilyn Imrie
A Sweet Talk Production for 成人快手 Radio 4.
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- Fri 17 Feb 2012 22:45成人快手 Radio 4
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