Thirst /
Gelasimov, Andreĭ.
Schwartz, Marian.
Las Vegas, Nev. : AmazonCrossing,
c2011.
Kostya returns from the Chechen War with a face so maimed it looks like a piece of meat. He confines himself to his lonely apartment, with no company save the vodka in his refrigerator. The woman next door checks on him regularly to see that he's still alive, and when she discovers the power his disfigured face has over her misbehaving son, she takes to using Kostya as a disciplinary influence.
Translation of: Zhazhda. Moscow : Ėksmo, 2003.
Kostya returns from the Chechen War with a face so maimed it looks like a piece of meat. He confines himself to his lonely apartment, with no company save the vodka in his refrigerator. The woman next door checks on him regularly to see that he's still alive, and when she discovers the power his disfigured face has over her misbehaving son, she takes to using Kostya as a disciplinary influence.
Veterans
Disfigured persons