The aviator / Eugene Vodolazkin ; translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vodolazkin, E. G., author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Hayden, Lisa C., translator.

Standardized Title:

Aviator. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Fiction.

Soviet Union.

History.

Amnesiacs--Fiction.

Amnesiacs.

Amnesia--Fiction.

Amnesia.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

387 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, England : Oneworld Publications, 2018.

Language Note:

Translated from Russian.

Summary:

From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love and loss spanning twentieth-century RussiaA man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The only information the doctor shares with his patient is his name: Innokenty Petrovich Platonov.As memories slowly resurface, Innokenty begins to build a vivid picture of his former life as a young man in Russia in the early twentieth century, living through the turbulence of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. But soon, only one question remains: how can he remember the start of the twentieth century, when the pills by his bedside were made in 1999? Reminiscent of the great works of twentieth-century Russian literature, with nods to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Bulgakov's The White Guard, The Aviator cements Vodolazkin's position as the rising star of Russia's literary scene.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781786072719

1786072718

OCLC:

1003701567

Publisher Number:

99976983432