In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha
has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf
commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the
infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set
out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the
dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers
and prisoners, hoboes and refugees and mice that steal medicines.
Their surreal inner world is vividly reflected in Pavlov's
expressive prose, reminiscent of Platonov. Poetic, tragic and
darkly comic, the novel is at once a grotesque portrayal of late
Soviet reality and an apocalyptic allegory that has drawn
comparisons with Faulkner and Kafka.
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