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Overwhelming story about guilt and love transgressing a century. Injustice and failure in life hurt to such an extent that you feel responsible for both what you lived and what you didn‘t. The main character is reconstructing and rewriting the past century from memories in a hope to heal unimaginably deep wounds

Episode 10 out now. Join Agnese from Beyond the Epilogue and I as we talk about translation prizes, Baltic Literature and The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin (translated by Lisa Hayden)

I didn't necessarily dislike this, but it moved really slowly and didn't grab my attention, so I bailed about a third of the way in.

This book is doing a lot of different things; it‘s about a man who, as a Zek in a Soviet penal colony, is frozen and then revived 80 years later. There are his memories growing up in a comfortable bourgeois family with a summer dacha, his memories of the Revolution and then his time as a prisoner alongside his experience of waking up in the future and what that does to him.