Sergei Lebedev - Oblivion

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On the shores of Israel’s Sea of Galilee lies the city of Tiberias, a place bursting with sexuality and longing for love. The air is saturated with smells of cooking and passion. Some Day is a gripping family saga, a sensual and emotional feast that plays out over decades. This is an enchanting tale about tragic fates that disrupt families and break our hearts. Zarhin’s hypnotic writing renders a painfully delicious vision of individual lives behind Israel’s larger national story.

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The very funny—and very sad—story of a group of villagers and their tragicomic efforts to emigrate from Europe’s most impoverished nation to Italy for work. An Orthodox priest is deserted by his wife for an art-dealing atheist; a mechanic redesigns his tractor for travel by air and sea; and thousands of villagers take to the road on a modern-day religious crusade to make it to the Italian Promised Land. A country where 25 percent of its population works abroad, remittances make up nearly 40 percent of GDP, and alcohol consumption per capita is the world’s highest – Moldova surely has its problems. But, as Lorchenkov vividly shows, it’s also a country whose residents don’t give up easily.

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First published in Russian in 2011 as Predel Zabvenya

Copyright © 2011 Sergei Lebedev

Translation Copyright © 2016 Antonina W. Bouis

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Lebedev, Sergei

[Predel Zabvenya. English]

Oblivion/ Sergei Lebedev; translation by Antonina W. Bouis.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-939931-25-2

Library of Congress Control Number 2015903594

I. Russia – Fiction