Funeral
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Funeral
14.99 €
Roman Senchin (b. 1971) is a novelist and winner of the Bolshaya Kniga and Yasnaya Polyana awards. He is the author of the novels "The Yeltyshevs," "The Flood Zone," and "Rain in Paris," the short story collections "The Noughties," "The Nineties," and "Detonation," and a biography of Alexander Tinyakov in the "ZhIL" series.
The hero of the novel, or essay-book as Roman Senchin calls it, "Pominki," comes to his parents' house after his mother's death. He tries to tidy up the hut, repair the fence, pick the Victoria strawberries he planted with his parents, fish in places familiar from his youth—and he remembers, remembers… His childhood and his deceased younger sister, his young parents and their distant ancestors who settled in Siberia at the beginning of the 20th century, his move to Moscow and their return, marriages and separations, the stories told in his books, and what has not yet been written…
“We must finish remembering. Write. Record. Carve on paper, as those unknown souls who lived three, five thousand years ago carved on stone… Yes, write, carve on paper and cut away in the soul. And gallop on into my fifties. Begin a new stage at fifty” (Roman Senchin).
The hero of the novel, or essay-book as Roman Senchin calls it, "Pominki," comes to his parents' house after his mother's death. He tries to tidy up the hut, repair the fence, pick the Victoria strawberries he planted with his parents, fish in places familiar from his youth—and he remembers, remembers… His childhood and his deceased younger sister, his young parents and their distant ancestors who settled in Siberia at the beginning of the 20th century, his move to Moscow and their return, marriages and separations, the stories told in his books, and what has not yet been written…
“We must finish remembering. Write. Record. Carve on paper, as those unknown souls who lived three, five thousand years ago carved on stone… Yes, write, carve on paper and cut away in the soul. And gallop on into my fifties. Begin a new stage at fifty” (Roman Senchin).
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series New Russian classics