Sergei Lebedev

Broschiertes Buch

A Present Past

Titan and Other Chronicles

Übersetzer: Bouis, Antonina W.

Beschreibung

A collection of short stories from one of Russiaâ s leading contemporary writers, which explores a post-Soviet world haunted by the secrets and crimes of its past.

Autor

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 include Oblivion, Untraceable, The Year of the Comet and The Goose Fritz, and 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 eighty works from authors such as Yevgeny 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 130mm x 199mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 208g
• ISBN-13: 9781035904129
• ISBN-10: 1035904128
• Artikelnr.: 69485306

Rezensionen

A tour de force – exquisite and gripping, finely translated, fiction that pulls you into the beautiful and brutal service of imagining and understanding the human realities of modern Russia, a series of tales meticulously crafted and deeply imagined.