The aviator
By: Eugene Vodolazkin ; translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden
Contributors: Hayden, Lisa C., translator
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781786072719
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Amnesiacs; Fiction; Amnesia; History
Description: From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love and loss spanning twentieth-century RussiaA man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The only information the doctor shares with his patient is his name: Innokenty Petrovich Platonov. As memories slowly resurface, Innokenty begins to build a vivid picture of his former life as a young man in Russia in the early twentieth century, living through the turbulence of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. But soon, only one question remains: how can he remember the start of the twentieth century, when the pills by his bedside were made in 1999?Reminiscent of the great works of twentieth-century Russian literature, with nods to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Bulgakov's The White Guard, The Aviator cements Vodolazkin's position as the rising star of Russia's literary scene.