![]() Mikhail Shishkin’s Maidenhair is an instant classic of Russian literature. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter’s own reading: a history of an ancient Persian war letters sent to his son “Nebuchadnezzasaurus,” ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia’s wars and revolutions in the early part of the twentieth century, and eventually saw the Soviet Union’s dissolution. Named one of “50 Must-Reads of Slavic Literature,” by Leah Rachel von Essen at Book Riotĭay after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter-the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise-and tell of the atrocities they’ve suffered, or that they’ve invented, or heard from someone else. Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartzįinalist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award ![]()
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