A Present Past - Titan and Other Chronicles

A collection of short stories from one of Russia's leading contemporary writers, which explores a post-Soviet world haunted by the secrets and crimes of its past.

About the author

Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. Lebedev is a poet, essayist and journalist. His novels have been translated into many languages and received great acclaim in the English-speaking world. The New York Review of Books has hailed Lebedev as 'the best of Russia's younger generation of writers'.Antonina W. Bouis is one of the leading translators of Russian literature working today. She has translated over 80 works from authors such as Evgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Sakharov, Sergei Dovlatov and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Bouis, previously executive director of the Soros Foundation in the former USSR, lives in New York City.

Summary

A collection of short stories from one of Russia’s leading contemporary writers, which explores a post-Soviet world haunted by the secrets and crimes of its past.

Foreword

A collection of short stories from one of Russia's leading contemporary writers, which explores a post-Soviet world haunted by the secrets and crimes of its past.

Additional text

Memories of the Soviet era emerge through relics, landmarks, and fantastical occurrences in this satisfying collection . . . Lebedev adds vibrant lyrical descriptions to the strange interplay of past and present . . . There's a real payoff to these rich and ambiguous stories.

Product details

• Authors: Sergei Lebedev, Lebedev Sergei, Lebedev Sergei Lebedev
• Assisted by: Antonina W. Bouis (Translation), Bouis Antonina W. (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2025
• EAN: 9781035904129
• ISBN: 978-1-03-590412-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 212 g
• Series: Wolf Brother; Bloomsbury Publishing
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary