Istemi - Couverture souple

Nikitin, Alexey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0720614643 ISBN 13 : 9780720614640

Editeur : Peter Owen Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

One of the most ambitious and wildly inventive novels to have come out of Russia in years, this short novel embraces the Brehznev years, the USSR's disintegration, and capitalist shock therapy in the post-Soviet bloc

The eponymous hero, part of a brood of bored science students, helps concoct a strategy game set in different eras where each "ruler" of his territory competes in Orwellian permanent war. But the KGB uncovers highly plausible and suspicious military plans and a long penance for each "combatant" ensues. All too late, Istemi is the first to realize the mysterious and disturbingly prophetic nature of a seemingly innocent invention. He is powerless as events long foretold for each unfold, including a hellish tour of duty in Afghanistan, incarceration in an asylum, and mindless bureaucratic drudgery—but what fate awaits Istemi as communist absurdist reality turns into postcapitalism nightmare?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alexei Nikitin is an author and the editor of the literary magazine Rearguard. In 2000 he was awarded the Vladimir Korolenko Literary Award for the best Russian prose in Ukraine. He is the author ofMahjong.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0720614643
• ISBN 13: 9780720614640
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 159
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible