Back to Moscow - Couverture rigide

Erades, Guillermo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1471149277 ISBN 13 : 9781471149276

Editeur : Scribner UK, 2016

Synopsis

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Recalling the open-hearted honesty of Ben Lerner and the whisky-sour satire of Bret Easton Ellis, Back to Moscow is a dazzlingly original, witty and ultimately haunting debut.
Months after his arrival in Moscow, doctoral student Martin hasn't written a word of his thesis on the heroines of the Russian classics because, for him and his expat friends, the cheap, bright lure of nightclubs, vodka and real women is predictably hard to resist. It's the early 2000s and the city is storming into the twenty-first century - the grim old soviet certainties are fading as money and an assertive political elite rise to power. Martin finds himself torn between opposing sensibilities: on the one hand, the limpid appeal of Lena, and her insistence on the Mysterious Russian Soul; on the other, that of his research supervisor Lyudmila Aleksandrovna, diligent, serious, caught in the shadow of a soviet past. Can the fates of Anna Karenina, Pushkin's Tatyana or Chekhov's three sisters help him to understand the women in his life?
Martin's restless explorations turn into a half-grasped search for meaning as Moscow leads him to darker and unexpected places, places tinged by Russia's ever-present sense of impending tragedy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Guillermo Erades was born in Malaga, Spain and has lived in Leeds, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Moscow, Berlin, Baghdad and Brussels, where he is currently based. Back to Moscow is his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribner UK
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1471149277
• ISBN 13: 9781471149276
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible