Contemporary fiction books from Russia
Recommended contemporary fiction books (2)
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If you are into contemporary fiction here are some contemporary fiction books from Russia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov EN
Description:
In this moving, amusing story of a seeming born loser at odds with the New World, there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrecoverably severed from its past.
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Description:
A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman's queer and artistic awakening. In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides to return her mother's ashes to their working-class hometown in Siberia. It is a journey home that will take her through the raw, almost dreamlike emotions of early grief through to an acceptance of the wound that death leaves behind. As she navigates the rituals of parting, Oksana feels her way through memory and heartache with a wry humour, reflecting on her complex relationship with her mother and on he... continue