In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe
the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to
the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a
shadowy neighbor who 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 great and ruined beauty of a land where
man and machine worked in tandem with nature to destroy millions of
lives during the Soviet century. Emerging from today's Russia,
where the ills of the past are being forcefully erased from public
memory, this masterful novel represents an epic literary attempt to
rescue history from the brink of oblivion. Sergei Lebedev was born
in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological
expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. His first novel,
Oblivion, has been translated into many languages.
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