Echelon to Samarkand

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Echelon to Samarkand

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Guzel Yakhina is the brightest debutante in the history of modern Russian literature, 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, is a travel novel and a kind of “red eastern”. 1923 Head of the echelon Deev and Commissioner Belaya evacuate five hundred homeless 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 destinies and characters: refugee peasants, Chekists, Cossacks, the eccentric world of little tramps with their language, psychology, superstition and hopes ... “I can say that such books are born very rarely and change everyone who reads. We all remember this feeling from Platonov: what you read changed you. In my memory also loomed the travels of Marco Polo and Afanasy Nikitin to the unattainable luxurious East, to the land of satiety and cruel atrocities, the craving for warmth, for terrible warmth, for heat, for a mirage in the desert. And this, thank God, Robinsonade. A genre that promises salvation in the final…” (Elena Kostyukovich)

Barcode: 9785171354794 SKU: 70142920 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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