{"product_id":"requiem-for-a-soldier-paperback","title":"Requiem for a Soldier - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOleg Pavlov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers and prisoners, hoboes and refugees and mice that steal medicines. Their surreal inner world is vividly reflected in Pavlov's expressive prose, reminiscent of Platonov. Poetic, tragic and darkly comic, the novel is at once a grotesque portrayal of late Soviet reality and an apocalyptic allegory that has drawn comparisons with Faulkner and Kafka.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOleg Pavlov: Oleg Pavlov is one of the most highly-regarded Russian writers today. He has won the Russian Booker Prize (2002) and Solzhenitsyn Prize (2012) among many other awards. Born in Moscow in 1970, Pavlov spent his military service as a prison guard in Kazakhstan. Many of the incidents portrayed in his fiction were inspired by his experiences there: he recalls how he found himself reading about Karabas, the very camp he had worked at, in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's \u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e, became Solzhenitsyn's secretary and was inspired to continue the great writer's work. Pavlov's writing is firmly in the tradition of great Russian novelists such as Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe was only 24 years old when his first novel, \u003ci\u003eCaptain of the Steppe\u003c\/i\u003e, was published, receiving praise not only from critics but from the jury of the Russian Booker Prize, which shortlisted the novel for the 1995 award. Pavlov went on to win the Prize in 2002 with his next book, \u003ci\u003eThe Matiushin Case\u003c\/i\u003e (English translation published in 2014 by And Other Stories). \u003ci\u003eThe Matiushin Case\u003c\/i\u003e was the second novel in what would become the thematic trilogy set in the last days of the Soviet empire: \u003ci\u003eTales from the Last Days\u003c\/i\u003e. All three works in the trilogy are stand-alone novels. The third book, \u003ci\u003eRequiem for a Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by And Other Stories in 2015. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnna Gunin has translated \u003ci\u003eI am a Chechen!\u003c\/i\u003e by German Sadulaev and \u003ci\u003eThe Sky Wept Fire\u003c\/i\u003e by Mikail Eldin. Her translations of Pavel Bazhov's folk tales appear in \u003ci\u003eRussian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin Classics), shortlisted for the 2014 Rossica Prize. She has also translated poetry, plays and film scripts by Denis Osokin and Yuri Arabov.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 21, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770025607456,"sku":"9781908276582","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a27c730b5c21e73daf82375dc254a85b.webp?v=1780362733","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/requiem-for-a-soldier-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}