Competition – Win a book set in Russia!

Submitted: 29th November 2018

An early Christmas treat today on Translation Thursday. A competition to win a book set in Russia! Solovyov and Larionov from One World Publications

There’s three copies up for grabs and the competition is open worldwide. Just follow and RT pinned tweet for a chance to win! Here’s more information about the book though.

BookTrail Solovyov and Larionov here

Solovyov and Larionov

BookTrail Solovyov and Larionov here

Shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize and Russia’s National Big Book Award!

Larionov. A general of the Imperial Russian Army who mysteriously avoided execution by the Bolsheviks when they swept to power and went on to live a long life in Yalta, leaving behind a vast heritage of memoirs.

Solovyov. The young history student who travels to Crimea, determined to find out how Larionov evaded capture after the 1917 revolution.

With wry humour, Eugene Vodolazkin, one of Russia’s foremost contemporary writers, takes readers on a fascinating journey through a momentous period of Russian history, interweaving the intriguing story of two men from very different backgrounds that ultimately asks whether we can really understand the present without first understanding the past.

BookTrail Solovyov and Larionov here

The author

Eugene Vodolazkin was born in Kiev and has worked in the department of Old Russian Literature at Pushkin House since 1990.

He is an expert in medieval Russian history and folklore. Solovyov and Larionov is his debut novel.

Laurus (Oneworld, 2015), his second novel but the first to be translated into English, won the National Big Book Award and the Yasnaya Polyana Award and has been translated into eighteen languages.

His third novel, The Aviator (Oneworld, 2018), was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and the National Big Book Award. He lives in St Petersburg.