It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia called Laurus is powerless to help his beloved as she dies in childbirth, unwed and without having received communion. Devastated and de
Can we ever really understand the present without first understanding the past?From the winner of the 2019 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prize, and the author of the multi-award winning Laurus, comes a sweep
WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD & THE READ RUSSIA AWARD*A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016*Fifteenth-century RussiaIt is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young hea
From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love, and loss spanning twentieth-century RussiaA man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came
From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love, and loss spanning twentieth-century RussiaA man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came
A man wakes up in a hospital bed. He has no idea who he is, where he is, or how he came to be there. The only information that the doctor shares with his patient before urging him to write down every
Solovyov, a young scholar born into obscurity, arrives in St Petersburg to have his thesis topic handed to him: the story of General Larionov. Dismissive at first, his subject soon intrigues the young
A groundbreaking and gripping literary detective novel set in Soviet-era RussiaSolovyov, a young scholar born into obscurity, arrives in St. Petersburg to have his thesis topic handed to him: the stor
From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love and loss spanning twentieth-century RussiaA man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came
From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love, and loss spanning twentieth-century Russia.A man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he cam