Tales of the Last Days Series (#1 & 3) by Oleg Pavlov
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Overview:Oleg Pavlov (Russian: Олег Олегович Павлов; born: March 16, 1970 in Moscow) was a prominent Russian writer, and a winner of the Russian Booker Prize.
Born in Moscow, he served in the Interior Ministry troops near the city of Karaganda. The events that Pavlov portrayed in his stories and novels were inspired by his own experiences as a prison camp guard.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Cultural > Russia
Captain of the Steppe (Tales of the Last Days #1)
It was easy to fall into Karabas, as easy as falling down a hole, but it was hard, to put it bluntly, to get out again.
Never mind the zeks, even the soldiers were exiled …’ Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men …This blackly comic novel shows the unsettling consequences of thinking for yourself under the Soviet system. Oleg Pavlov’s first novel, published when he was only 24, Captain of the Steppe was immediately praised for its chilling but humane and hilarious depiction of the Soviet Empire’s last years.
The first in a trilogy, this novel already confirms Pavlov as a worthy successor to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Requiem for a Soldier (Tales of the Last Days #3)
In 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.
Oleg 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.
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The Matiushin Case (Tales of the Last Days #2)
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