Kingdom of Agamemnon

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Vladimir Sharov is a writer and historian, author of the cult novels "Rehearsals", "Before and During", "Old Girl", "Be Like Children", "Return to Egypt". Laureate of the Russian Booker and Big Book awards.
The new novel "The Kingdom of Agamemnon" has all the "trademark" features of Vladimir Sharov's prose: unbridled fantasy and jumps in time, unexpected historical parallels and deep religious and philosophical reflections, large-scale mass scenes and the subtlest psychology...

The action of the novel "The Kingdom of Agamemnon" does not take place in antiquity - the narrative covers the XNUMXth century and reaches our days - but in many ways it is a cast of a classical tragedy, and the main characters feel like heroes of an ancient Greek myth.
The hero-narrator Gleb is preparing for the publication of the works of Nikolai Zhestovsky - a philosopher and monk, he spent many years in the camps and described his life in a manuscript that disappeared in the Lubyanka. Gleb gets access to the archives of the NKVD-KGB and at the same time the opportunity to have many hours of conversations with his daughter. The fate of Zhestovsky and the history of his family becomes the basis of the story...

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Barcode: 9785171094546 SKU: 70122911 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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