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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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WUNDERKIND YERZHAN OR A SMALL MAN FROM A BIG COUNTRY
A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War.
Set in Kazakhstan, near what was for 40 years the main Soviet test site for atomic weapons at Semipalatinsk.
The narrator is on a long train journey across the Kazakh steppe. He starts talking to Yerzhan, a violinist who is busking on the train. The narrator takes Yerzhan for a 12-year-old boy, but Yerzhan insists he is actually 27.
The central tragedy is that Yerzhan suddenly completely stops growing at the age of 12 he has been irrevocably damaged by swimming in a lake of radioactive water in "the Zone". But the girl next door, whom he loves and who is a year younger than him, continues to grow taller, becoming more and more unattainable
The narrator is on a long train journey across the Kazakh steppe. He starts talking to Yerzhan, a violinist who is busking on the train. The narrator takes Yerzhan for a 12-year-old boy, but Yerzhan insists he is actually 27.
The central tragedy is that Yerzhan suddenly completely stops growing at the age of 12 he has been irrevocably damaged by swimming in a lake of radioactive water in "the Zone". But the girl next door, whom he loves and who is a year younger than him, continues to grow taller, becoming more and more unattainable
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Published 2011-09-01 by Druzhba Narodov |