Wednesday, August 5, 2020

2020 NatsBest Goes to Elizarov’s Earth

Yesterday the National Bestseller Award went to Mikhail Elizarov’s Земля (Earth) (previous post), a very long and often very funny book about death and the funeral industry. Earth had two votes. Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina’s Уран (Uranium) and Sofia Sinitskaya’s Сияние “жеможаха” (the one with the tricky title that I kind of like calling The “Zhemozhakha” Shining since the title’s other word is the same as the Russian title of a certain Stephen King book) each had one vote.

For a bit more, see this post from Год литературы.

Up Next: Potpourri, Inga Kuznetsova’s Промежуток.

Disclaimers and Disclosures: I received a copy of Earth from BGS Literary Agency and have translated excerpts from the novel.

4 comments:

  1. What an exciting update! Looking forward to your review of Промежуток with great interest, Lisa!

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    1. I'm looking forward to it, too, Russian Dinosaur! I generally enjoyed it a lot, though I'm still trying to make sense of it for myself.

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  2. Hurrah! Maybe that means that someone will translate it now.... ;D

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    1. I just found this comment, which inexplicably went to spam. And of course Earth feels all the more topical now, after the Big Book disaster/debacle. Earth is very, very long, though I have heard tell that it may possibly be translated. We shall see!

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