Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

about the authors & works

Sergei Lebedev Sergey Lebedev (born in Moscow,1981) worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. Lebedev is a poet, essayist and journalist. He is currently at work on his third novel. In Oblivion , “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. …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.” Sergei Lebedev “opens up new territory in literature. Lebedev’s prose lives from the precise images and the author’s colossal gift of observation.”— Der Spiegel “The beauty of the language is almost impossible to bear. The novel luxuriates in poetic language.”— Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Beautifullywritten, haunting and unputdownable. Amasterpiece novel which relates the horrors of Russia’s unburied Soviet past through the eyes of aman revisiting—and filling in the gaps in—his half-understood childhood.”—Edward Lucas, senior editor,  The Economist  This novel is available frommid-January 2016 by NewVessel Press. Translated from Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.

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