Born in 1970, Gina Ochsner has worked as a dog-walker, a substitute teacher, and in a shop selling cheese and puppets, and now lives in western Oregon with her husband and four children.
World-class fiction from a vibrantly imaginative and sympathetic US author making her UK debut, a writer who takes the universe we know and shows us how it might be – and it’s a place you’ll never want to leave.
Published: 01/12/05,
'Gina Ochsner’s powerful debut presents 11 stories, many of which have the pared-down quality of her fellow Oregonian Raymond Carver’s work.’ Financial Times
Published: 01/07/06,
‘Nothing stays dead in Russia.’ This bewitching novel of post-Soviet lives moves between the magical, the comical and the transcendent to portray a people who rely on dreams to defy the coming of dereliction and decay.
Published: 01/03/09, RRP: £15.99, Introductory Offer: 20% Off All Titles, Web Price: £12.79, You Save: £3.20 (20%), ADD TO BASKET
Gina Ochsner, author of People I wanted To Be and The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight, is one of five finalists shortlisted for The Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.
The Orange Prize Shadow Youth Panel have shortlisted The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
Portobello Books has been shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year 2009!
The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight by Gina Ochsner has been longlisted for the Orange Prize 2009.
Gina Ochsner's continuing series on her lifelong love affair with all things Russian leads us to St Petersburg and the miraculous Prince Alexander Nevsky.
17:31:00 22/07/09
The second installment in Gina Ochsner's series on a lifelong love affair with all things Russian.
13:00:00 18/05/09
This is the first in a series of blog posts by Gina Ochsner on her life long love affair with all things Russian.
18:30:00 27/04/09