Literature, Science and Global Russians. Interview with Olga Breininger

... Medvedev’s Zahhok , which is set in post-Soviet Tajikistan. It is a very powerful novel with many violent and scary scenes, but it deals with an experience of recent decades that has not yet been reflected in contemporary literature. For fans of counterculture literature, I would recommend Ilya Danishevsky’s Tenderness for the Dead , which is a very powerful and unexpected read. And, of course, one of the most important books of last year, Alexei Salnikov’s The Petrovs In and Around the Flu . It is a wonderfully written book and really unique in that it is equally popular among people with very different literary preferences. As a rule, every book in today’s literary ...