A brilliant fusion of travel writing and Soviet history which reads like Bruce Chatwin.
Frank Westerman was born in 1964 and lived and worked in Moscow from 1997 to 2002 as correspondent for the leading Dutch NRC Handelsblad newspaper. Westerman is the author of five highly praised books. His work has been published in more than ten languages and has won many prizes.
A compelling combination of literary criticism and travelogue
*Scotland on Sunday*
Westerman is a very fine writer and his stories, characters and
digressions are as delicately wrought as a watch mechanism. Like
Bruce Chatwin and the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, he has
elevated the authorial journalist-traveller into a brilliant, magic
storyteller; like them he seeks out the smaller, human-sized epics
that play out their tragedies against the backdrop of history
*Sunday Times*
Westerman completes a portrait at once engaging and devastating. As
such, it comes closer than any conventional literary history to
defining the elusive Socialist Realism.
*Independent*
An extraordinarily compelling, imaginative and subtle mixture of
history, literary criticism and travelogue
*History Today*
Brilliant, illuminating and rich
*Literary Review*
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