Rachel

Literature & Fiction

Andrei Gelasimov

Humor & Satire

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

It is the summer of 1945. The Allies have triumphed in Europe and Hitler has vanished. But with Japanese forces gathering just across the border in occupied China, brutal warfare on Russian soil remains a real and constant threat to Soviet life.For Petka, a rambunctious twelve-year-old boy with dreams too big for his tiny village of Razgulyaevka, the prospect of invasion is dangerously thrilling. He watches the Red Army troops march off to engage the enemy, and wages his own war—against boredom, bullies, and his lot in life as a bastard in a backwoods world. Secretly raising a wolf in his grandmother’s goat barn, happily raising hell with the local troops, stowing away in a shipment of bootleg booze destined for the combat zone, and defying death by the noose, Petka eagerly takes all he can from life, with an irrepressible spirit.Nominated for the 2014 Rossica Translation Prize.

Gods of the Steppe

Genre Fiction

The Lying Year

Could have been the blown business deal with the Italians. Could have been the unauthorized office party, which ended with the cops—and then an arrest. No matter what finally got him fired, Mikhail never expected to find himself at Red Star Industries’ office again. So down-and-out Mikhail is surprised to be called in by old boss Pavel Petrovich, who offers Mikhail easy money and the Land Rover of his dreams to teach his son, Sergei, how to “be a man”—and to spy on him. Of course, Sergei’s not the Internet-obsessed recluse his father believes. He’s hiding a relationship with the beautiful Marina, who Mikhail himself can’t help but fall for as well. To keep it all together, Mikhail finds himself lying to Petrovich about his son’s activities, lying to Marina about Sergei’s intentions, and lying to Sergei about his love for Marina. So when Sergei’s father invites them all to Italy, the web of lies holding their world together begins to fall apart, and about the time Mikhail finds himself held hostage at gunpoint, he realizes he’s gotten in way over his head…

Lying Year, The

Gelasimov - provozvestnik podlinnogo gumanizma.
Ego novyj roman - jeto tonkoe, liricheskoe obrawenie k nashej istorii, ko vremeni konca Vtoroj mirovoj vojny.
Bez spekuljacij i patrioticheskih isterik, spokojno i blagorodno avtor jazykom klassicheskogo russkogo romana rasskazyvaet o sovremennike Velikoj pobedy - Zabajkal'skom mal'chishke Pet'ke. V kotorom otrazilas' vsja protivorechivost' toj jepohi. S ee zhestokim stremleniem k geroizmu i neverojatnoj nezhnost'ju i teplotoj obyknovennyh chelovecheskih otnoshenij. Podvergnutyh ispytanijam voennogo rezhima.
No «Stepnye bogi» - jeto ne prosto istorija, jeto dinamichnyj triller. Glubokie uranovye rudniki vblizi Arguni, plennyj vrach-japonec, kotoryj odin znaet ih tajnu, chudoviwnye mutacii stepnyh trav, privodjawie k gibeli desjatkov ljudej... kak esli by Mark Tven napisal «Kod da Vinchi» i pri jetom Dikkens otredaktiroval by jeto v pol'zu pobedy dobra.
Nikogda ewe sovremennyj russkij roman ne byl stol' iskrennim i zahvatyvajuwim!

Stepnye Bogi

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