num_pages: 90
description: Sevastopol contains three distinct narratives each burrowing into a crucial turning point in a persons life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a musty semiabandoned inn in the haunted depths of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the city of Sevastopol and a Russian painter portraying Crimean War soldiers. Inspired by Tolstoys The Sevastopol Sketches Emilio Fraia masterfully weaves together these stories of yearning and loss obsession and madness failure and the desire to persist in a restrained manner reminiscent of the prose of Chekhov Roberto Bolano and Rachel Cusk.
language: English
title: Sevastopol
publisher: New Directions