The Year of the Comet
From the critically acclaimed author of Oblivion comes Year of the Comet, a story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse. An idyllic childhood takes a sinister turn. Rumours of a serial killer haunt the neighbourhood, families pack up and leave town without a word of warning, and the country begins to unravel. Policemen stand by as protesters overtake the streets, knowing that the once awe-inspiring symbols of power they wear on their helmets have become devoid of meaning.Lebedev depicts a vast empire coming apart at the seams, transforming a very public moment into something tender and personal…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Bouis, Antonina W. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-80024-922-6
- EAN: 9781800249226
- Produktnummer: 35817808
- Verlag: Head of Zeus
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. Lebedev is a poet, essayist and journalist. His novels have been translated into many languages and received great acclaim in the English-speaking world. The New York Review of Books has hailed Lebedev as 'the best of Russia's younger generation of writers'.
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