![]() He write for magazines including GQ and Playboy and currently lives in Moscow. In 2001, Fingernails first caught media attention and his fourth novel The Librarian was awarded the 2008 Russian Booker Prize. 1973 in the Ukraine studies literature and moves to Hanover Germany to study cinema. ‘Immensely entertaining, The Librarian lives up to comparisons to the work of Gogol and Bulgakov while being very much its own thing’ Jeffe Vandermeer, Slate ‘A world of myths… and a requiem for a broken country’ Questions of Literature ![]() ‘How words can be more dangerous than machine-guns’ Proza ‘Uncompromising, bizarre and desperate’ Gazeta ‘The most radical of Russian Booker winners’ Snob ‘A truly bright author and an ingenious writer’ Vladimir Sorokin, author of Ice Trilogy and Day of the Oprichnik ‘Powerful, disturbing, and at the same time, uplifting’ Vzgliad ‘Belongs to that glittering vein of the burlesque and fantastic, which runs through the strata of Russian literature like a seam of gold.’ Magazine Littéraire ‘Elizarov is an heir to the classic Russian writers’ Prochtenie Everything will change when he inherits a Book of Memory, and therefore becomes… a Librarian.īlending depravity, black humour, reality and myth, Elizarov casts a satirical eye over Soviet Russia in this epic masterpiece and winner of the Russian Booker Prize-a tale of human longing, unwavering belief, and the search for meaning in a chaotic, illusory world. Trapped in the middle of this world inhabited by society’s outcasts – the decrepit, the heartbroken, the abandoned, the abused – is the young and unremarkable Alexei. Soon, Libraries of readers start to emerge, waging war on one another to seize precious copies of the Books and terrible consequences ensue. These books transform believers from senile to lucid, cowardly to brave, weak to strong. But he has left behind his Books and the powers they impart – the Fury to tear enemies limb from limb, the Memory of a perfect childhood, the Strength to overcome all fear of death. Gromov is merely a forgotten writer of Soviet propagandist novels.
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