The Taking of Izmail

Mikhail Shishkin · 2000 CE · Novel · Russian · Contemporary

Monologues, letters and a provincial court case are layered with fragments of Russian history, from Suvorov's storming of the Turkish fortress in 1790 to the present. It is the second novel of Shishkin, who builds a collage of voices in the manner of Russian modernist prose.

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