Keith Gessen is the author of A Terrible Country, All the Sad Young Literary Men and a founding editor of n+1. He edited and co-translated Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good, also published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and translated Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. He teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York.
发表于2024-12-26
A Terrible Country 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 小说 回忆录 俄羅斯 黑色幽默 近代史 小說
In the summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves from New York to Moscow to look after his ageing grandmother, a woman who survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist transformation. She welcomes Andrei into her home, even if she can’t always remember who he is. Andrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow, still the city of his birth, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly – but surprisingly sharp! – grandmother, finds a place to play hockey, a café to send emails, and eventually some friends, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Capturing with a miniaturist’s brush the unfolding demands of family, fortune, personal ambition, ideology, and desire, A Terrible Country is a compelling novel about ageing, radical politics, Russia at a crossroads, and the difficulty – or impossibility – of actually changing one’s life.
比想象的要有趣易读一些。不清楚作者是否有意为之,不过视角很特别,让我想起不少吃我国的血馒头来营生的China-watchers.......
评分又溫情又幽默的小說,寫得淺白流暢。不用看標題猜國家:是說俄羅斯。老祖母年事已高,一直照顧祖母的兄長有事遠行,主角不遠千里回到這麼遠那麼近的祖國。人性的天真、計算、友愛、仇恨,都在忘卻之中淡然了。
评分比想象的要有趣易读一些。不清楚作者是否有意为之,不过视角很特别,让我想起不少吃我国的血馒头来营生的China-watchers.......
评分又溫情又幽默的小說,寫得淺白流暢。不用看標題猜國家:是說俄羅斯。老祖母年事已高,一直照顧祖母的兄長有事遠行,主角不遠千里回到這麼遠那麼近的祖國。人性的天真、計算、友愛、仇恨,都在忘卻之中淡然了。
评分又溫情又幽默的小說,寫得淺白流暢。不用看標題猜國家:是說俄羅斯。老祖母年事已高,一直照顧祖母的兄長有事遠行,主角不遠千里回到這麼遠那麼近的祖國。人性的天真、計算、友愛、仇恨,都在忘卻之中淡然了。
A Terrible Country 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书