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Pub Date Aug 16 2025 | Archive Date Jul 31 2025

Literary Press Group of Canada | Linda Leith Publishing

Literary Fiction | Novellas & Short Stories

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Description

In Sentence, Mikhail Iossel performs a remarkable juggling act between genres and countries. Can you write a "Russian" sentence in English? The author has found a perfect syntactical solution to the opposition of past and present in this groundbreaking collection of one-sentence stories: everything is simultaneous, breathless, in a dizzying spin of memory and imagination. The past and the present are inseparable—but the sentence is here, as a celebration of linguistic freedom and virtuosity.

In Sentence, Mikhail Iossel performs a remarkable juggling act between genres and countries. Can you write a "Russian" sentence in English? The author has found a perfect syntactical solution to the...

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A Note From the Publisher

He is the author of Love Like Water, Love Like Fire (winner of the 2021 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction)

Founding director of the Summer Literary Seminars international literary programs, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker

Iossel has taught in universities throughout the United States and is associate professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.

He is the author of Love Like Water, Love Like Fire (winner of the 2021 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction)

Founding director of the Summer Literary Seminars international literary...

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Marketing Plan

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Launch in Montreal

N. American media tour

Print & Digital Ad Campaign

Launch in Montreal

N. American media tour

Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781773901749
PRICE $24.95 (USD)
PAGES 200

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