Echelon in Samarkand

Guzel Yakhin is the brightest debutant in the history of Russian literature, laureate of the prizes "Big Book" and "Yasnaya Polyana", the author of the bestseller "Zuleikha opens his eyes" and "My children".

Her new book "Echelon on Samarkand" is a traveling novel and a kind of "Red Istrn". 1923. The head of the echelon Deev and the Commissioner Belaya is evacuated by five hundred street children from Kazan to Samarkand. A series of exciting and terrible adventures on the way, an extensive geography-from the forests of the Volga region and Kazakh steppes to the Kyzyl-Kuma deserts and the mountains of Turkestan, a palette of destinies and characters: peasants, Chekists, Cossacks, the eccentric world of small tramps with their language, psychology, superstition And hopes ...

"I can say that such books are born very rarely and change everyone who reads. We all remember this feeling from Platonov: what you read changed you. In my memory, Marco Polo and Athanasius Nikitin also loomed to the unattainable luxurious east, to the edge of satiety and cruel atrocities, a craving for heat, to a terrible warmth, to the heat, to the mirage in the desert. And this, thank God, Robinsonada. Genre that promises salvation in the final ... "(Elena Kostyukovich)