A Terrible Country - Couverture souple

Gessen, Keith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910695769 ISBN 13 : 9781910695760

Editeur : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018

Synopsis

In the summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves from New York to Moscow to look after his ageing grandmother, a woman who survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist transformation. She welcomes Andrei into her home, even if she can’t always remember who he is. Andrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow, still the city of his birth, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly – but surprisingly sharp! – grandmother, finds a place to play hockey, a café to send emails, and eventually some friends, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Capturing with a miniaturist’s brush the unfolding demands of family, fortune, personal ambition, ideology, and desire, A Terrible Country is a compelling novel about ageing, radical politics, Russia at a crossroads, and the difficulty – or impossibility – of actually changing one’s life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Keith Gessen is the author of A Terrible Country, All the Sad Young Literary Men and a founding editor of n+1. He edited and co-translated Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good, also published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and translated Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. He teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910695769
• ISBN 13: 9781910695760
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible