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Selling Your First Soul

Kseniya Melnik

‘The Russia of my memories was largely imaginary – a cauldron of nostalgia-tinted material, which I calibrated with scrupulous research.’

Kseniya Melnik

Kseniya Melnik's debut book is the linked story collection Snow in May, which was short-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Born in Magadan, Russia, Kseniya moved to Alaska in 1998, at the age of 15, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Esquire (Russia), Granta (Finland), O, Oprah Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prospect (UK), and her first published story was selected for Granta's New Voices series.

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