“Focuses on the hatred of outsiders, the cruel relief strategies of a frightened society …. An uncompromising critic of the Russian government … Lebedev sees the mounting persecution of a minority not only as a consequence but almost as an inherent condition of totalitarianism.”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
New York Magazine has published their Approval Matrix for the week of 4/19. Yitzhak Gormezano Goren’s novel Alexandrian Summer occupies the top (right) spot.
It is both highbrow and brilliant. Officially.
http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/approval-matrix-2015-4-20/
