Oblivion

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. One of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system.

Autorentext
Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. Lebedev is a poet, essayist and journalist. His novels have been translated into many languages and received great acclaim in the English-speaking world. The New York Review of Books has hailed Lebedev as 'the best of Russia's younger generation of writers'. Antonina W. Bouis is one of the leading translators of Russian literature working today. She has translated over 80 works from authors such as Evgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Sakharov, Sergei Dovlatov and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Bouis, previously executive director of the Soros Foundation in the former USSR, lives in New York City.

Klappentext
A young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbour who saved his life. One of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system.