Oblivion

[*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