A novel about history both personal and political, and the mysteries of the past. This is the story of a young Russian named Kirill, the sole survivor of a once numerous clan of German origin, who delves relentlessly into the unresolved past.
A young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbour who saved his life. One of the first twenty- first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system.
A Russian novel about poisons of all kinds - physical, moral, political - all rooted in the recent history of Russia's state assassinations and Putin's continuation of the most degraded traditions of his country's history.
A story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.
The Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them more movingly than Russian author Sergei Lebedev, who in this stunning volume probes a collective guilty conscience marked by otherworldliness and the denial of misdeeds. These eleven tales share a mystical topography in which the legacy of totalitarian regimes is ever-present—from Katyn to Chechnya, from Lithuanian KGB documents to the streetscape of unified Berlin, from the fragments of family history to the echoes of foot soldiers in Russia’s wars of aggression. In these stories, as in Lebedev’s acclaimed novels, the voices of things, places, animals, and people seek justice for a restless past, where steel claws scrape just beneath the surface and where the heredity of evil is uninterrupted, unacknowledged, unnamed.
Roman
Russland im August 1991: ein Putsch bringt das Land zum Beben, Gorbatschow wird abgesetzt, Jelzin übernimmt die Macht und Putin kann kaum erwarten, der Nächste zu sein. Das Land zerfällt. Nichts ist mehr, wie es Jahrzehnte lang war. Die einen verscherbeln Bodenschätze und Panzer und werden Multimillionäre, die anderen versinken in bitterer Armut. In dieser Zeit des totalen Umbruchs entdeckt der Ich-Erzähler das Tagebuch seiner Großmutter und erkennt, dass das Schweigen über die Vergangenheit gebrochen werden muss, wenn Russland eine Zukunft haben will. Ein hochaktueller, ein spannender Roman über ein Land, das schon lange keine Weltmacht mehr ist.