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Lizka and Her Men
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Book Details
- ISBN 9781852428815
- 3 May 2007
- 288pp
- Paperback
Contributors
Translated by
Andrew Bromfield
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Synopsis
Lizka is a young Russian living an unexciting life in a backward rural town. After her first fleeting and unsatisfactory sexual experience sets the locals’ tongues wagging, she moves to a larger town – G – in search of a new life – and love. As she moves from one relationship to another, her ‘men’ include a local con-man, a powerful Party official (later the local governor), a trolleybus driver, a belligerent young army veteran and, ultimately, a poet, the narrator of the story, who finally takes her away from G.
In keeping with our heroine’s own character, and in the tradition of the great Russian writers, Ikonnikov draws out the tragic-comic nature of his characters and their obsessions, and presents the reader with a wonderfully detailed picture of provincial Russian characters, habits, opinions and desires.
Reviews
‘With his first full length novel, this talented young writer has succeeded in producing both a detailed psychological study of a young naïve girl’s transition into a fully fledged confident woman and a true reflection of Russian character and behaviour of the last 35 years’ Kulturnews