The Librarian
The forgotten novels of Gromov, a Soviet hack, turn out to give extraordinary powers to those who read them in the right way. Secret reading groups known as libraries compete to the death for the surviving copies. Elizarov's novel treats the cult of Soviet literature as a cult in the full sense, and won the Russian Booker in 2008.
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