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Publisher: Europa Editions
Author: Sasha Filipenko
ISBN: 9781609456931
Fiction
Red Crosses
by
Sasha Filipenko
Red Crosses by
Sasha Filipenko
Reviews
"The most interesting thing was to hear the voice of a young writer, from a generation who barely knew the Soviet times, and to see how he grapples with the subject... Nothing unlocks the human soul as profoundly as a novel can."
Los Angeles Review of Books
Summary
One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman, over ninety, rich in lived experience, and suffering from Alzheimer’s. Every day, she loses a few more of her irreplaceable memories. Alexander is a young man whose life has been brutally torn in two.
Tatiana tells her young neighbour her life story, a story that encompasses the entire Russian 20th century with all its horrors and hard-won humanity.
Little by little, the old woman and the young man forge an unlikely friendship and make a pact against forgetting.
