The Beggar And Other Stories by Gaito Gazdanov

A collection of spare, dreamlike short stories that follow displaced characters—often Russian émigrés—whose quiet obsessions, chance encounters and stubborn memories collide to reveal the fragile architecture of identity and fate; written in an elegiac, precise voice, the tales move between melancholy humor and existential unease, tracing how loss, longing and small, decisive moments reshape lives and leave a lingering sense of mystery.

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