Sally Laird

Sally Laird is the editor of Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers, and is the translator of many books, including The Time: Night by Ludmila Petrushevskaya.

The Queue
An average day in the Soviet Union, hundreds of people are lined up for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Sorokin's most approachable novel is told in snatches of dialogue that are in turn poignant and uproarious.