The Light and the Dark

Author(s): Mikhail Shishkin

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Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century.

Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death.

Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound.

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Winner of Premiya "Bolshaya Kniga" (Russian "Big Book" Prize) 2011.

'Shishkin is the Ian McEwan of Russia' Monocle. 'A literary masterpiece' Guardian. '[A] powerful treatment of love and the vividness of being alive' Sunday Times.

Born in 1961 in Moscow, Mikhail Shishkin is one of the most prominent names in contemporary Russian literature, and is the only author to have won all three major Russian Literary Prizes. He divides his time between Moscow, Switzerland and Germany.

General Fields

  • : 9781780871080
  • : Quercus
  • : Quercus Publishing Plc
  • : January 2014
  • : 198mm X 132mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Mikhail Shishkin
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : en
  • : 891.735
  • : 455