Hanuman's Travels, which was shortlisted for the Russian Booker in
2010, translated into German and French, and put on the German
stage, is the picaresque tale of two asylum-seekers, one a Russian
Estonian man (the narrator) and the other an Indian (the
protagonist), and about their daily lives in a Danish refugee camp
and on the road in the late 1990s. While they are waiting to go to
the Danish island of Lolland, which is said to be a paradise, the
two companions in misfortune survive in any way they can. Among
scams, big and small disgraces, humiliations and lies, a map is
gradually drawn - a detailed map of itineraries where the hopes and
the fears of thousands of marginal people flounder and intertwine.
Andrei Ivanov was inspired to write this novel by his own
vicissitudes as a stateless person living in Denmark. Their
struggle at times engenders dismissiveness and even intolerance,
but also humanity, courage and the wisdom born of experience and
resignation.
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