The Underground
- Authors
- Hamid Ismailov
- Publisher
- Restless Books
- Tags
- fiction & fiction , urban , fic048000 , fiction & fiction , general , fic000000 , fiction & fiction , literary , fic019000 , russia , uzbekistan , africa , soviet union , dostoyevsky , turgenev , gorky , nabokov , pushkin , siberia , metro , moscow , olympics
- Date
- 2015-09-21T17:59:10Z
- Size
- 0.71 MB
- Lang
- en
Description
"I am Moscow's underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town," says Mbobo, the precocious 12-year-old narrator of Uzbek master Hamid Ismailov's novel, The Underground. Born from a Siberian woman and an African athlete who came to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mbobo navigates the complexities of being a fatherless, mixed-raced boy in the shaky terrain of the Soviet Union in the years before its collapse. Named one of the "ten best Russian novels of the 21st Century," (Continent Magazine), The Underground is exiled Uzbek author and BBC journalist Hamid Ismailov's haunting and moving tour of the Soviet capital, on the surface and beneath, in the years before the fall. Though deeply engaged with great Russian authors of the pastDostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Nabokov, and, above all, PushkinIsmailov is an emerging master of a new kind of Russian writing that revels in the sordid reality and diverse composition of the country...