"An astonishing descent into the underworld ... A modern artist has rarely rendered so intensely the spectrality of all things."
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La Repubblica
“Not since Alexander Solzhenitsyn has Russia had a writer as obsessed as Sergei Lebedev with that country’s history or the traces it has left on the collective consciousness … rich in textures, colors, sounds, and visual details, wonderfully rendered into English by Antonina W. Bouis … Lebedev is arguably the best of Russia’s younger generation of writers.”
The New York Review of Books