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Aaron Hamburger is the author of the short-story collection The View from Stalin’s Head, for which he was awarded the Rome Prize by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded a fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and won first prize in the David Dornstein Memorial Creative Writing Contest for Young Adult Writers. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Out, Nerve, and Time Out New York. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City.


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Faith for Beginners
A Novel
Written by Aaron Hamburger

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $13.95

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The View from Stalin's Head

Written by Aaron Hamburger

Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $9.99

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The View from Stalin's Head

Written by Aaron Hamburger

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $12.95

A debut collection of ten lucid, haunting, and darkly comic stories about Americans and Europeans in post-Cold War Prague.

The ten stories in The View from Stalin's Head unfold in the post-Cold War Prague of the 1990s, a magnet not only for artists and writers but also for tourists and drifters, a... Read more >