Troy against everyone
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What is this book about? About American punk and African oil industry workers. About love and Soviet childhood. What can be the connection between all this? Ask Vadik Goldner, and he will answer you with a mixture of Russian with English and Portuguese. The hero of the new novel by Alexander Stesin lived several lives: a schoolboy-emigrant, a young punk barrier, a successful lawyer in Angola ... "Troy against all" is a book about how the experience of the past unexpectedly breaks through in our present. Talking about the growing of the hero on three continents, the author in his own way updates the classic genre "Roman Education". The soundtrack here becomes the sensual Portuguese FADU, then the furious hardcore, which is equally loved in the slums of the Angolan capital and in the provincial American city with the Homeric name. Alexander Zesin - poet, prose writer, traveler and doctor, author of books "Through tea" (2017), "New York Bypass" (2019), "African Book" (2020), "Birds of Life" (2021) and others, laureate "Russian Prize" (2014) and the literary prize "Nose" (2019)
This is a novel-music. And an affair with music. USSR, USA, Angola, USA again. And all only for the hero to understand. Homeland is where the heart is.
Marina Stepnova
Troy against all " - an extremely interesting, perfectly written epic of formation. In this novel, the memory, eliminating the present with the inexorable elusiveness, is built to the rank of literary technique (the easier the modernity remembers, the more reliable we forget it - and the more valuable efforts to transform it into text and even tradition) The story "Troy" rattles adolescence, rings you with youth and sounds full -time adult melancholy. Self -irony, the persecution of details, including psychological, as well as the fact that the circumstances of the plot here are my favorite, relating to the "heart of darkness" of Conrad, when a person is taken into a completely unknown anthropological situation. But the main advantage of the "Troy" is that it is a smart, sensitive, somewhat sad and exciting book about growing up, fairly prolonged, fortunately, for life.
Alexander Ilicevsky
This is a novel-music. And an affair with music. USSR, USA, Angola, USA again. And all only for the hero to understand. Homeland is where the heart is.
Marina Stepnova
Troy against all " - an extremely interesting, perfectly written epic of formation. In this novel, the memory, eliminating the present with the inexorable elusiveness, is built to the rank of literary technique (the easier the modernity remembers, the more reliable we forget it - and the more valuable efforts to transform it into text and even tradition) The story "Troy" rattles adolescence, rings you with youth and sounds full -time adult melancholy. Self -irony, the persecution of details, including psychological, as well as the fact that the circumstances of the plot here are my favorite, relating to the "heart of darkness" of Conrad, when a person is taken into a completely unknown anthropological situation. But the main advantage of the "Troy" is that it is a smart, sensitive, somewhat sad and exciting book about growing up, fairly prolonged, fortunately, for life.
Alexander Ilicevsky
Author:
Author:Zesin Alexander
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-1791-9
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