The Light and the Dark
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1623658772 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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AUTHOR Mikhail Shishkin was born in Moscow in 1961. Shishkin shares his time between Moscow, Berlin, and Switzerland.TRANSLATORAndrew Bromfield has translated into English many notable Russian authors, including Boris Akunin, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, and many more. He is a founding editor of Glas, a Russian literary journal.From the Hardcover edition.. Today, he
A Brilliant Masterpiece I do believe that fifty or a hundred years from now, this novel will be celebrated as a rare classic of our age. For me, it stands out among the very best that humankind has produced. Shishkin's imagination is audacious. The deeply-felt dramas that drive the lives of his central characters are authentic and haunting. His description of the ordinary is astonishing for both its exactness and originality. Equally astonishing is his creative manipulation of the idea of time, his . Ailyn Koay said Touching and romantic. I borrowed this from my local library.I loved the way the author uses two people to signify the light and the dark. The light is Sashenka, a girl, representing life while Volodenka represents the dark and death. This is just my point of view, as the letters from Sashenka is more happy while Volodenka's is more about death. The story moves between Russia and China, where Sashenka still lives there and Volodenka is fighting a war.From the letters, I could see some romantic noti. "Outstanding story" according to John Stults. This is an epistolary novel between a young man who goes to fight in the Boxer Rebellion and his beloved at home in Russia. As the story goes along they become separated in both time and geography but eventually meet again. A typical Russian "thought" novel that details the ups and downs of life, separation from family and friends and how seemingly small events have huge consequences. For instance, one character has an attack of dysentery, runs off to settle things and his fr
An exquisite novel His sovereignty is over the invisible and the timeless. Known fondly to each other as Vovka and Sashka, the two young lovers sustain their love by writing passionate letters to each other. But as their correspondence continues, it becomes clear that the couple's separation is chronological as well as geographical--that their extraordinary romance is actually created out of, as well as kept alive by, their yearning epistolary exchange, which defies not only space but time. The only author to win all three major Russian literary prizes (including the Russian Booker Prize), Mikhail Shishkin is one of the most acclaimed contemporary Russian literary figures. Shishkin traces this sad story with great beauty and finesse." In The Light and the Dark Shishkin has created an evocative love story of two young lovers, Vladimir, a
The book is full of echoes and allusions, for instance to Gogol and Shakespeare, not as if the author is playing literary games to amuse himself but completely naturally, as if these characters live with their culture the way real people actually do The Light and the Dark is an immersive reading experience that lingers in the mind long after closing the book. If at first it seems loosely plotted and full of diversions, with a direct sentimentality usually avoided in literary novels, in the end it has an authenticity born out of a voice that is both natural and lyrical."Michel Basilieres, The Toronto Star"Shishkin is arguably Russia's greatest living novelist his writing is richly textured and innovative and his themes are universal: love and death, pain and happiness, war and peace. Shishkin traces this sad story with great beauty and finesse."Sam Sacks, The Wall Stree