Oblivion
This acclaimed twenty-first-century Russian novel is a Dantean descent into the abandoned Soviet gulags, written with a clear poetic sensibility (The Wall Street Journal). In Sergei Lebedev's debut novel, an unnamed young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a mysterious neighbor who once saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags is a world relegated to oblivion, where it is easier to ignore both the victims and the executioners than to come to terms with a terrible past. This disturbing tale evokes the…
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Weitere Autoren: Ames, Jonathan / Bouis, Antonina W. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-939931-29-0
- EAN: 9781939931290
- Produktnummer: 22596425
- Verlag: New Vessel Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'985 KB
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 first novel, Oblivion, has been translated into many languages. Lebedev, one of Russia's most exciting young writers, is currently at work on his third novel.Antonina W. Bouis is one of the leading translators of Russian literature working today. She has translated over 80 works from authors such as Evgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Sakharov, Sergei Dovlatov and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Bouis, previously executive director of the Soros Foundation in the former USSR, now lives in New York City.
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