Russian service
9.99 €
In stock
Russian service
9.99 €
The dream to see the faces of the legendary commentators of foreign radio, whose voices, breaking through the silencers, the hero of the “Russian Service” heard in Moscow, leads this petty Soviet employee into the corridors of Foreign Broadcasting in London. But faces do not always match voices, and his unique gift of correcting spelling errors in ministerial reports is not needed to work on the air. Published forty years ago in Paris and serialized on English and French radio, Zinovius Zinik's novel has long been a Cold War classic with its Gothic attributes - the Iron Curtain, emigrant squabbles and poisoned umbrellas. But as the author points out, Russian history does not stand still: it repeats itself, over and over again.
Zinovy Zinik is a prose writer and essayist. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1975. He has lived in the UK since 1976. He is the author of the books “Orgon Box” (2017), “Yermulka under a Turban” (2018), “My Father’s Feet and Other Relics” (2020) and the collections “Emigration as a Literary Device” (2011), “The Third Jerusalem” (2013) and “No Reason to Worry” (2022).
Zinovy Zinik is a prose writer and essayist. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1975. He has lived in the UK since 1976. He is the author of the books “Orgon Box” (2017), “Yermulka under a Turban” (2018), “My Father’s Feet and Other Relics” (2020) and the collections “Emigration as a Literary Device” (2011), “The Third Jerusalem” (2013) and “No Reason to Worry” (2022).
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Artistic literature