[*Translated by Antonina W. Bouis][Read by Daniel Gamburg]A young man travels to the wastelands of far northern Russia 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-- a past in which man and machine worked in tandem with nature to destroy millions of lives during the Soviet century. In today's Russia, where the ills of the past are being forcefully erased from public memory, this novel is an epic literary attempt to rescue history from the brink of oblivion. *First published in Russian in 2011 as Predel Zabvenya

Oblivion

Literature & Fiction

Sergei Lebedev

Literary

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

'A superb literary thriller' The Times, Book of the Week 
'A thriller dipped in poison ... Lebedev shares some of le Carré's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil' New York Times\nAn extraordinary and angry Russian novel about poisons of all kinds: physical, moral and political. 
Professor Kalitin is a ruthless, narcissistic chemist who has developed an untraceable, extremely lethal poison called Neophyte while working in a secret city on an island in the Russian far east. When the Soviet Union collapses, he defects and is given a new identity in Germany. 
After an unrelated Russian is murdered with Kalitin's poison, his cover is blown and he's drawn into the German investigation of the death. Two special forces killers with a lot of Chechen blood on their hands are sent to silence him - using his own undetectable poison. Their journey to their target is full of blunders, mishaps, holdups and accidents.\nPraise for Sergei Lebedev:\n'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 
'Turn off your television sets and get reading. Sergei Lebedev writes not of the past, but of today' Svetlana Alexievich 
'Lebedev's books dealt with history - it lay like a shadow over everything he wrote - and the fact that its presence was so powerful suggested that the conflicts and tensions inherent in it were still unresolved, still had a bearing on Russian society in obscure yet palpable ways' Karl Ove Knausgaard

Untraceable

Contemporary

Apollo

The Goose Fritz

The Life , Counsels and Miracles of 'Eldress Rachel, Visionary of Russia

Consoler of Suffering Hearts: The Life, Counsels and Miracles of Eldress Rachel, Visionary of Russia (Modern Matericon Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

St Herman Press,US

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