Oblivion

"Rich in textures, colors, sounds, and visual details ... The best of Russia's younger generation of writers."—The New York Review of Books

In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gula...