The Light and the Dark
Mikhail Shishkin, Andrew Bromfield
£9.99
Description
Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death. Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound.
Publisher Review
'[A] powerful treatment of love and the vividness of being alive' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times * 'A literary masterpiece' Guardian. * Guardian * 'Shishkin is the Ian McEwan of Russia' Monocle. * Monocle *
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