The Goose Fritz

“Lebedev’s characters seek ways to cut the umbilical cord with the past.”
—Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

This revelatory novel shows why Karl Ove Knausgaard has likened its celebrated Russian author to an "indomitable ... animal that won't let go of something when it gets its teeth into it." The book tells the story of a young Russian named Kirill, the sole survivor of a once numerous clan of German origin, who delves relen...