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Solar Plexus (Paperback)
Rustam Ibragimbekov
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From the Academy award winning screenplay writer of Burnt by the
Sun, Solar Plexus is a compelling saga of family and friendship,
love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's
rapidly-changing capital, Baku, as the country struggles with the
transition into a post-Soviet world... Spanning three generations
and stretching from the 1940s to the 1990s, the four distinct parts
that make up Solar Plexus intertwine to tell the tale of a group of
friends who grew-up around the same courtyard in Baku. Each section
is told from a different perspective as the friends' passions,
deceits, rivalries and disappointments play out against the
shifting turmoil of those decades: from the Great Patriotic War and
Stalin's Purges, to the industrial institutes and Russification of
the '50s and '60s, through to the struggle for independence and
violence of the early '90s. The lives of Alik, Marat, Lucky, Eldar
and Seidzade are realised with rare insight and a superb eye for
the bigger picture, but also with humour, and a recognition of
life's absurdity that recalls writers from Bulgakov to Kundera.
Ibragimbekov evokes a world of passion and honour, of proud men and
hot-headed women, of great tenderness and complex humanity, where
"the truth is always just one of many truths." The novel is equally
a paean to the multiculturalism of Baku, and a time when a person's
worth was measured by their qualities, not whether they had been
born an Azeri, Russian, Jew or Armenian - a time brought to a
violent end by the war with Armenia, when friends and neighbours
were suddenly turned against one another, and broad-minded
inclusion gave way to an exclusive and crude nationalism.
Translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield
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