Back to Moscow

Zusatztext 'Powerful . . . an ambitious debut which . . . chronicles an individual’s struggle to lead a meaningful life' Informationen zum Autor Guillermo Erades was born in Malaga! Spain and has lived in Leeds! Amsterdam! Luxembourg! Moscow! Berlin! Baghdad and Brussels! where he is currently based. Back to Moscow is his first novel. Klappentext A sharply observed novel about an individual and the city that shapes him in the vein of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station. BACK TO MOSCOW is distinctive! dazzling! witty and ultimately haunting. Zusammenfassung Recalling the open-hearted honesty of Ben Lerner and the whisky-sour satire of Bret Easton Ellis!  Back to Moscow  is a dazzlingly original! witty and ultimately haunting debut.     The early 2000s! and Moscow is storming into the century as money and an assertive political elite rise to power. Months after his arrival! expat student Martin hasn't written a word of his thesis on the heroines of the Russian classics because the cheap! bright lure of nightclubs! vodka and real women is predictably hard to resist. He finds himself torn between opposing sensibilities: on the one hand! the limpid appeal of Lena! and her insistence on the Mysterious Russian Soul; on the other! that of his research supervisor Lyudmila Aleksandrovna - diligent! serious! caught in the shadow of a soviet past. Can the fates of Anna Karenina! Pushkin's Tatyana or Chekhov's three sisters help him understand the women in his life?     Martin's restless explorations turn into a half-grasped search for meaning as Moscow leads him to dark and unexpected places tinged by Russia's ever-present sense of impending tragedy.

Product details

• Authors: Guillermo Erades, G M ERADES
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9781471149283
• ISBN: 978-1-4711-4928-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Scribner
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Spanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)