One of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the
legacy of the Soviet prison camp system by one of Russia's finest
young writers. A young man travels to the vast wastelands of the
Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbour 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.
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