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Main theme of this collection of short stories by Vladislav Otroshenko is memories of the author about his childhood years spent in his native region near river Don, where Iranian, Greek, Roman, Turkic, Mongolian and Slavic traditions mixed freely. Otroshenko masterfully mixes reality with self-invented myths, using a number of unconventional techniques in order to introduce nonlinearity into his works.
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At first glance, Yacov’s Ladder perfectly embodies the generic definition of a “family saga.” The story of several generations of Osetskys, who were originally from Kiev and then transplanted to Moscow, spans an entire century, from 1911 to 2011. The family saga is, however, no more than a shell, a shapely vessel chosen by the author in her search for answers to...
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