In this book, comedy and narratorial gusto are frequently combined with terror or border on despair

A story that poses the question of what it means to be rooted

The Chronicler of a Vanishing World

The bizarre link between enslavement and expansion, the obverse and reverse of the same Russian coin

This is an inspiring and invigorating read, something like a breath of fresh air in a musty enclosure

A voice in the discussion on the topic of the identity of the old continent