Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers
the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the
back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the items he finds
inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov
inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A
poplin shirt evokes a story of courtship and marriage, a pair of
boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two
pea-green crepe socks bring back memories of his attempt to become
a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him
of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer.
Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov's
characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation,
The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from
one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century.
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