6/9/2023 0 Comments Maidenhair by mikhail shishkin![]() Mikhail Shishkin is one of Russia's most prominent and respected contemporary writers. It bravely takes on the eternal questions-of truth and fiction, of time and timeless-ness, of love and war, of Death and the Word-and is a movingly luminescent expression of the pain of life and its uncountable joys. Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair is an instant classic of Russian literature. ![]() These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a his-tory of an ancient Persian war letters sent to his son Nebuchadnezzasaurus, ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia's wars and revolutions in the early part of the twentieth century, and eventually saw the Soviet Union's dissolution. ![]() One of the most prominent names in modern Russian literature.- Publishers WeeklyÄay after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter-the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise-and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. ![]()
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