The Dead Lake

The Dead Lake

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Автор: Ismailov Hamid

Серия: Coming-of-Age

Язык: английский

Год: 2014

Издатель: Peirene Press

ISBN: 978-1-908670-19-9

Город: London

Переводчик: Andrew Bromfield

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Аннотация

A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War.
Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of Kazakhstan where the Soviets tests atomic weapons. As a young boy he falls in love with the neighbour’s daughter and one evening, to impress her, he dives into a forbidden lake. The radio-active water changes Yerzhan. He will never grow into a man. While the girl he loves becomes a beautiful woman.
Why Peirene chose to publish this book:

‘Like a Grimm’s Fairy tale, this story transforms an innermost fear into an outward reality. We witness a prepubescent boy’s secret terror of not growing up into a man. We also wander in a beautiful, fierce landscape unlike any other we find in Western Literature. And by the end of Yerzhan’s tale we are awe-struck by our human resilience in the face of catastrophic, man-made, follies.’
~ Meike Ziervogel, Peirene Press