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2017
Olga Slavnikova. Duckworth Publishers
A bombastic novel about love and revolution set in the near, rather gloomy, future. The events take place in a town resembling both the author’s hometown of Yekaterinburg and a classic, anti-utopian metropolis with mysticism, gangs, a polluted environment, social inequality and an atmosphere suggestive of impending revolution.
2017 is the most successful novel of Slavnikova (born 1953), receiving the Russian Booker prize. This serious author's distinctive feature lies in the courage she displays when experimenting with such traditionally light-branded genres as romance novels and contemporary city prose.
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