A real odyssey in the scenery of a destroyed country in the early years of Soviet power.
Guzel Yakhina is the brightest debutante in the history of modern Russian literature, laureate of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards, author of the best-selling books Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes and My Children.
Her new audiobook «Echelon to Samarkand» is a travel novel and a kind of «red eastern». 1923 year. Echelon chief Deev and commissar Belaya evacuate five hundred street children from Kazan to Samarkand. A series of exciting and scary adventures on the way, vast geography — from the forests of the Volga region and the Kazakh steppes to the Kyzyl Kuma deserts and the mountains of Turkestan, a palette of destinies and characters: refugee peasants, security officers, Cossacks, an eccentric world of little vagrants with their language, psychology, superstition and hopes …
“I can say that such books are born very rarely and change everyone who reads. We all remember this feeling from Platonov: what you read changed you. The travels of Marco Polo and Afanasy Nikitin to the unattainable luxurious East, to the land of satiety and cruel atrocity, craving for warmth, for terrible warmth, for heat, for a mirage in the desert loomed in my memory. And also, thank God, Robinsonade. A genre that promises salvation in the finale … «
Elena Kostyukovich
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