Title: The mountain and the wall
Description: ""Never before has Russian literature produced such an honest and complete picture of today's Caucasus.""-Kommersant Weekend (Russia) ""The Mountain and the Wall is a major event in contemporary Russian literature.""-Ulrich M. Schmid, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Germany) This remarkable debut novel by a unique young Russian voice portrays the influence of political intolerance and religious violence in the lives of people forced to choose between evils. The Mountain and the Wall focuses on Shamil, a young local reporter in Makhachkala, and his reactions, or lack thereof, to rumors that the Russian.
Subjects: Political science, Fiction, FICTION, General, Fiction, general, Russia (federation), fiction
Places: Russia