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Voroshilovgrad (Paperback)
Serhiy Zhadan; Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes, Isaac Wheeler
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R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
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"Trainspotting set against a grim post-Soviet backdrop." --
Newsweek World Literature Today's Recommended Summer Reads 2016 A
city-dwelling executive heads home to take over his brother's gas
station after his mysterious disappearance, but all he finds at
home are mysteries and ghosts. The bleak industrial landscape of
now-war-torn eastern Ukraine sets the stage for Voroshilovgrad, the
Soviet era name of the Ukranian city of Luhansk, mixing magical
realism and exhilarating road novel in poetic, powerful, and
expressive prose. Serhiy Zhadan, one of the key figureheads in
contemporary Ukrainian literature and the most famous poet in the
country, has become the voice of Ukraine's "Euro-Maidan" movement.
He lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Dmitry Lipskerov, an award-winning Russian writer compared
throughout his career to Mikhail Bulgakov and Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, focuses his unbridled imagination on the story of wealthy,
satisfied Mr. Iratov, whose virile world is flipped upside-down.
Taking a page from Gogol's satirical story "The Nose," wherein the
protagonist loses his aforementioned facial feature, Lipskerov's
novel transposes such a loss onto a more delicate organ. The
protagonist awakens one morning bereft of his tool; and the tool,
which re-appears, sentient and in a small village far away, without
his man. Thus begins a novel both funny and absurd, in which
characters come together across disparate social strata and with
differing goals to weave the fate of a universe familiar yet
fantastical, a perfect satire of the madness of Russian society
today. The Tool and the Butterflies, Lipskerov's eagerly
anticipated English language debut, is not just a darkly comedic
exploration of post-Soviet attitudes towards gender and sexuality,
but also a historically and socially grounded narrative rich in
naturalistic dialogue and everyday detail, and an engaging story of
family and what matters most in life, in the grandest tradition of
Russian literature.
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