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From celebrated storyteller Josh Weil comes a sui generis epic swathed in all the magic of Russian folklore and set against the dystopian backdrop of an all too real alternate present. Twins Yarik and Dima have been inseparable since childhood. Living on their uncles farm after the death of their father, the boys once spent their days helping farmers in fields, their nights spellbound by their uncles tales. Years later, they labor together at the Oranzheria, a sea of glass erected over acres of cropland and lit by space mirrors that ensnare the denizens of Petroplavilsk in perpetual daylight. Now the twins have only work in commonstalwart Yarik married with children, oppressed by the burden of responsibility dreamer Dima living alone with his mother, wistfully planning the brothers return to their uncles land.



About the Author

Josh Weil

Josh Weil is the author of the novel The Great Glass Sea; the novella collection The New Valley; and The Age of Perpetual Light, a story collection forthcoming in September 2017.

A New York Times Editor's Choice and Powell's Indiespensible selection, The Great Glass Sea won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the GrubStreet National Book Prize, and the Library of Virginia's Literary Award in Fiction, and was short-listed for The Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The New Valley (also a New York Times Editor's Choice) won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New Writers Award from the GLCA, and a "5 Under 35" Award from the National Book Foundation. Weil's short fiction has garnered a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Granta, Esquire, Tin House, and One Story, among others. He has written non-fiction for The New York Times, The Sun, Poets & Writers and Time.com. A recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, he has been the Tickner Writer-in-Residence at Gilman School, the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University, and the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, and has taught in the graduate programs at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and Bennington College.

Born in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia, he currently lives with his family in Northern California's Sierra Nevada.



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