Oblivion

"A monomaniacal meditation on memory and forgetting, presence and emptiness, Europe and its other . . . While Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov now have the resounding ineffectiveness of classic writers, Lebedev's magnificent novel has the potency to become a mirror and wake-up call to a Russia that is blind to history."—Neue Zürcher Zeitung

"Sergei Lebedev opens up new territory in literature. Lebedev's prose lives from the precise images and the author's colossal gift of observation."—…