Category: Russian Fiction

Тут недалеко

Kira Yarmysh

1/5 stars

The novel is a fast, comic, frightening road story about Eva, or Evdokia Vinohodova, and her old friend Nika. It begins with Eva already on the run. She has fled Rostov-on-Don after the security services pressure her to become an informer against people she knows from anarchist circles. She had been present around a political […]

Bobo by Linor Goralik (2022)

The novel, written from the perspective of a teenage elephant named Bobo, is set in 2022, opening just after the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops on February 24. Interlacing a brutally honest depiction of the Russian socio-political reality with subtle fantasy, the novel has the Turkish sultan give Bobo to the Russian tsar as […]