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Maidenhair | Mikhail Shishkin

I can't even express how much I admire Mikhail Shishkin's work. It has everything I love. A bold postmodern structure, characters wrestling with morality and love and loss. He's utterly uncompromising and he makes you work so hard while reading but it is totally worth it #dropeverythingandread #aprilbookshowers

andrew61 I've just reserved 'The light and the dark' from the library as it is the onky one of his books they have in stock. It looks intriguing. Thanks for the recommend. 7y

Moray_Reads @andrew61 I hope you enjoy it. It's up there with the best books I've ever read. Not that I want to oversell it! 😳 7y

andrew61 @Moray_Reads im looking fwd to getting hold of it. Meant only not onky! 7y

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Maidenhair | Mikhail Shishkin

I've taken a ridiculously broad view of what counts as #setineasterneurope - there are so many definitions. Many are set before the fall of the USSR. I have Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Czechoslovskia and Poland though some of these can (should?) also be classed as Central Europe, Northern Europe, the Balkans etc. I have lots more but only so much room in the picture!

saresmoore Wow! I applaud your specificity! Geography is my greatest academic weakness, so I am particularly impressed. 7y

tpixie Wow! You have lots of them! 7y

Moray_Reads @saresmoore I spent a lot of secondary school and university studying USSR and post-USSR history 😊 7y

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Moray_Reads @tpixie This is only a selection! There's a lot still at my parents' house 😕 7y

tpixie Wow!!! Awesome! 7y

Moray_Reads @tpixie I recommend all of these, especially Maidenhair and the Czar's Madman 7y

Oftencantdecide Wow, I literally got a copy of The Czar's Madman yesterday. Taking this as a sign I should bump it up my to-read list🙂 7y

Moray_Reads @Oftencantdecide Oh it's wonderful. It was one of my favorites of last year 💙 7y

andrew61 Can i ask which is the Latvia book. I'm on an around world read in a GR group and its a country I've not visited so far. 7y

Moray_Reads @andrew61 It's the excellent

High Tide

Moray_Reads @andrew61 and if you fancy a trip into the surreal and bizarre you could also try

Flesh-Coloured Dominos

andrew61 @Moray_Reads thanks 😊 7y

Moray_Reads @andrew61 No problem, I recommend the publisher Open Door, they do wonderful translations of contemporary fiction and their editions are gorgeous 😍 7y

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