An extraordinary, angry Russian novel about poisons of all kinds – physical, moral, political – all rooted in the recent history of Russia's state assassinations and Putin's continuation of the most degraded traditions of his country's history.
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.
PRAISE FOR SERGEI LEBEDEV:
'Not since Alexander Solzhenitsyn has Russia had a writer as
obsessed as Sergei Lebedev with that country's history or the
traces it has left on the collective consciousness. Rich in
textures, colors, sounds, and visual details, wonderfully rendered
into English by Antonina W. Bouis ... Lebedev is arguably the best
of Russia's younger generation of writers' Orlando Figes, New York
Review of Books.
'Enthralling and exquisite, by one of modern Russia's finest
writers' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street.
'One of Russia's most interesting young novelists takes on Putin,
poison and power in this unique novel; Lebedev provides a
fascinating window on modern Russia' Anne Applebaum.
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