SHORTLISTED: EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE 2022 "If you want to get inside
the head of modern, young Russia, read Filipenko."-SVETLANA
ALEXIEVICH (Nobel Prize winner, 2015) A heart-wrenching novel
exploring both personal and collective memory spanning Russian
history from Stalin's terror to the present day. Tatiana Alexeyevna
is 90 years old and she's losing her memory. To find her way in her
Soviet-era apartment block, she resorts to painting red crosses on
the doors leading back to her apartment. But she still remembers
the past in vivid detail. Alexander, a young man whose life has
been brutally torn in two, would like nothing better than to forget
the tragic events that have brought him to Minsk. When he moves
into the flat next door to Tatiana's, he's cornered by the
loquacious old lady. Reluctant at first, he's soon drawn into
Tatiana's life story - one told urgently, before her memories of
the Russian 20th century and its horrors are wiped out. The two
forge an unlikely friendship, a pact against forgetting giving rise
to a new sense of hope in the future. Deeply moving, with flashes
of humour, Red Crosses is a shining narrative in the tradition of
the great Russian novel.
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