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  | NEW RUSSIAN WRITING in English translation • from Glas, Moscow Winners of the Debut Young Writers Prize ALEXANDER SNEGIREV was born in 1980 in Moscow. | |
 | Alexander Snegirev Petroleum Venus - A novel Translated by Arch Tait Glas, Moscow, 2013 ISBN 978-5-7172-0096-7 Paperback, £8.99; $15.00 250 pages Order from Inpress Books • Petroleum Venus won the Debut Prize • Shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize • Nominated for the Russian Booker • On the ozon.ru bestseller list for a year “Rarely sentimental and never treacly. Snegirev is not afraid to depict the frustrations and irritations of raising a disabled child.” Publishers Weekly Petroleum Venus is a surprisingly funny and touching story, and this tale works so well thanks mainly to the character of Vanya whose innocence and stubbornness help create his strong moral compass in a corrupt society where everything seems to be for sale. To Vanya, life is black and white; there are no ambiguities, no grey spaces for moral quibbling, and while everyone else seems to have discovered morally questionable ways to get ahead, Vanya is a refreshing alternative. Guy Savage, wordpress.com A tragi-comic story of a successful young architect, Fyodor, the reluctant single father of an adolescent son, Vanya, born with Down’s syndrome. But when Vanya, who is reminiscent of the “rain man”, pulls a mystical painting from the wreckage of a fatal car crash, everything changes. This is the first of a series of extraordinary events that lead both father and son on a journey towards love, responsibility and acceptance | |
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 | Dmitry Vachedin Glas, Moscow, 16 April 2013 Dmitry Vachedin’s novel is peopled with Volga Germans who, invited to emigrate to Russia in the reign of Catherine the Great, prospered as conscientious farmers, and then in the twentieth-century found themselves caught up in a war between Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany. Seen by Russia as potential collaborators with the Nazis, they were subjected to one of Stalin’s bungled deportations of an entire population (to Kazakhstan and Siberia). They were able finally to return to Germany under the Law of Return in the late 1980s and 1990s. Vachedin is himself a Volga German, now settled in Germany and working in Bonn for Deutsche Welle. His characters are uniquely placed to compare the strengths and weaknesses of the Russian and German temperaments, and do not come down unambiguously in favour of orderly Europe. The novel is a delight to read. A highly topical exploration of the relationships between young people trapped between Europe’s poles of Germany and Russia. From Snow Germans: |
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 | Arslan Khasavov SENSE: a Novel Glas New Russian Writing Moscow, June 2012 (Vol. 54 in the Glas New Russian Writing Series) Paperback, £8.99; $15.00 ISBN 978-5-7172-0093-6 250 pages Order from Inpress in the UK or Amazon “This Chechen boy has created a portrait of dissident youth in the best traditions of Tolstoy and Turgenev.” Eduard Limonov, author. Stumbling on a book like SENSE is like rummaging around at Vincent Boot and Shoe and finding a pair of Robert Clergerie alligator loafers for 12.99. Or actually, more like finding some funky, kick-ass Derek Lam booties. A little novel by a very young but award-winning Chechen author, SENSE is about the alienation of Artur, who intends to become a great revolutionary activist, thinker, and writer. Set in today's Moscow, it's a wonderfully colourful guide to the current political atmosphere there, as well as its glittery/ gritty world of nightclubbing Russotrash, rappers, gangsters, and intellectual poseurs who are in huge contrast to the Russian heroes of history. Or are they? Artur tries to find his place, and his efforts are really funny. Wry, whip-smart, and perceptive, Khasavov's work brings to mind Dostoevsky, Kafka, and the great classic samizdat novel, Moscow-Petushki by Benedikt Yerofeev. This dude is to watch. Added bonus: translation is by Arch Tait, who translates many of the best contemporary Russian writers. LH, Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi. “Arch Tait's highly competent translation.” (Andrei Rogatchevski, Fiction in Brief) |
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 | GLAS - NEW RUSSIAN WRITING Present-day Russian writing in English translation. Off the Beaten Track Stories by Russian Hitchhikers Irina Bogatyreva's novella Off the Beaten Track (translated by Arch Tait) Igor Savelyev's Pale City (Translated by Amanda Love Darragh) and Tatiana Mazepina's Journey Towards Paradise (translated by Ainsley Morse). 304 pages. ISBN 978-5-7172-0092-9 For full information about the Glas New Russian Writing translation series, please click HERE The UK and Commonwealth supplier is Inpress Books For North America and elsewhere, our suppliers are Consortium Book Sales and Distribution Email: orderentry@perseusbooks.com Phone: 800-283-3572; Fax: 800-351-5073 34 Thirteenth Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413, USA | |