Train to Samarkand
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Train to Samarkand
14.99 €
Guzel Yakhina is the brightest debutante in the history of Russian literature of the recent times, winner of the "Big Book" and "Yasnaya Polyana" awards, author of the bestsellers "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes" and "My Children".
Her new book "Echelon to Samarkand" - a novel-travel and a kind of "red istern". 1923. The head of the echelon Deyev and Commissar Belaya evacuate five hundred street children from Kazan to Samarkand. A series of exciting and terrible adventures on the way, a vast geography - from the forests of the Volga region and the Kazakh steppes to the deserts of Kyzyl-Kum and the mountains of Turkestan, a palette of fates and characters: peasant refugees, Chekists, Cossacks, the eccentric world of little vagabonds with their language, psychology, superstition and hopes ... "I can say that such books are born very rarely and change everyone who reads them. We all remember that feeling from Platonov: what you read has changed you. Marco Polo and Afanasy Nikitin's travels to the unattainable luxurious East, to the land of satiety and brutal atrocities, the craving for warmth, for terrible heat, for heat, for a mirage in the desert, also loomed in my memory. It is also, thank goodness, a robinsonade. A genre that promises salvation in the finale..." (Elena Kostyukovich)
Her new book "Echelon to Samarkand" - a novel-travel and a kind of "red istern". 1923. The head of the echelon Deyev and Commissar Belaya evacuate five hundred street children from Kazan to Samarkand. A series of exciting and terrible adventures on the way, a vast geography - from the forests of the Volga region and the Kazakh steppes to the deserts of Kyzyl-Kum and the mountains of Turkestan, a palette of fates and characters: peasant refugees, Chekists, Cossacks, the eccentric world of little vagabonds with their language, psychology, superstition and hopes ... "I can say that such books are born very rarely and change everyone who reads them. We all remember that feeling from Platonov: what you read has changed you. Marco Polo and Afanasy Nikitin's travels to the unattainable luxurious East, to the land of satiety and brutal atrocities, the craving for warmth, for terrible heat, for heat, for a mirage in the desert, also loomed in my memory. It is also, thank goodness, a robinsonade. A genre that promises salvation in the finale..." (Elena Kostyukovich)
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