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Oblivion

Oblivion

Lebedev, Sergei
Bouis, Antonina W.

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Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1939931258
ISBN13: 9781939931252
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: Jan 19 2016
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Rich in textures, colors, sounds, and visual details ... The best of Russia's younger generation of writers.-The New York Review of Books


In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags, is a world relegated to oblivion, where it is easier to ignore both the victims and the executioners than to come to terms with a terrible past. This disturbing tale evokes the great and ruined beauty of a land where man and machine worked in tandem with nature to destroy millions of lives during the Soviet century. Emerging from today's Russia, where the ills of the past are being forcefully erased from public memory, this masterful novel represents an epic literary attempt to rescue history from the brink of oblivion.

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