ARGONAUT BOOKS

Capturing with a miniaturist's brush the unfolding demands of family, fortune, personal ambition, ideology, and desire, A Terrible Country is a compelling novel about ageing, radical politics, Russia at a crossroads, and the difficulty - or impossibility - of actually changing one's life. Reviews 'Keith Gessen's second novel is a very funny, perceptive, exasperated, loving and timely portrait of a country that its author clearly knows well.... The refreshingly artless writing belies a deep understanding of Russia, its history and literature. Andrei digresses enlighteningly o...Read More