![]() ![]() The characters are linked throughout the collection in ways mundane, coincidental, an delightful - strangers influencing each other without being able to see or recognize their underlying connections. Each of them has a distinctive voice and their own story to tell. It’s a punishing place: cold, industrial, cursed and supported by the nickel smelting plant that dominates the town.īut the people - a prima ballerina, former gulag prisoners, Miss Siberia and Russia’s 14th wealthiest man, contract soldiers, a techno music fanatic, a museum curator - are warm, funny, driven, conflicted. In between these two tales, we’re taken on a journey through 75 years of Russian history alongside the ordinary, extraordinary people who populate the Russian city of Kirovsk. As he drifts past Pluto, he listens to a vintage cassette tape. The collection ends with a Russian floating in a space capsule - date unknown. ![]() In an unfinished train tunnel, a lone censor removes images of traitors from photographs. The first story is set in Leningrad in 1937. This collection of interconnected short stories features remarkable characters, examines big life stuff (family, sacrifice, war, and art), and hinges on a carefully-curated mixtape that travels through time. ![]()
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