Must finish Demons this weekend before it turns into my demon
Photograph of St. Petersburg by Alexandr Aleexeev
“Never in my life have I taken first place”, muses the narrator of Kamennyi most (The Stone Bridge), as he lines up his toy soldiers on a flea market stall in Moscow on a quiet autumn Sunday in 1998. Such is the opening of Alexander Terekhov’s 832-page novel, last year’s most talked-about work of fiction in Russia which took second prize in the Big Book awards…Mysteries at the heart of Stalin’s empire in the TLS.
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