Month: March 2015

The latest addition to my website is Zakhar Prilepin‘s Санькя (Sankya). Sankya, invariably called Sasha in this book, is a young Russian, a former military man who belongs to a group called the Founding Fathers, which is opposed to the ruling authorities in Russia, i.e. to Putin, though he is not mentioned by name. Sasha … Read more

The latest addition to my website is Ludmila Ulitskaya‘s Даниэль Штайн, переводчик (Daniel Stein, Interpreter). This is a quasi-hagiographic fictionalisation of the story of Oswald Rufeisen, a Polish Jew who, during the war joined the Gestapo to help his fellow Jews escape the Nazis and later joined the Soviet NKVD for similar reasons. During the … Read more