Addendum to a photo album
Subtitle: a novel
By: Vladislav Otroshenko ; translated from the Russian by Lisa Hayden
Contributors: Hayden, Lisa C., translator
Edition: First edition.
Series: Russian literature series; Russian literature series
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9781564781253
Subjects: Cossacks; Families; Fiction
Work titles: Prilozhenie k fotoalʹbomu
Description: "Addendum to a Photo Album is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric  Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife Annushka, and his many sons, all born with sideburns, it details their fraught relationships, particularly when sitting for the family photographs included in the album of the title. Vladislav Otroshenko's flowing sentences and rich metaphorical language describe characters whose concerns embrace the heroic, the metaphysical, and the mundane, as they fulfill their duties as Cossack warriors and family members. Otroshenko draws on his upbringing in Novocherkassk, a city on the Don River, creating a world and a book inhabited with absurdity, filial love, and unusual facial hair."--Publisher's website.