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A Journey into Russia

Autor Jens Mühling Traducere de Eugene H. Hayworth
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mar 2017
When German journalist Jens Mühling met Juri, a Russian television producer selling stories about his homeland, he was mesmerized by what he heard: the real Russia and Ukraine were more unbelievable than anything he could have invented. The encounter changed Mühling’s life, triggering a number of journeys to Ukraine and deep into the Russian heartland on a quest for stories of ordinary and extraordinary people. Away from the bright lights of Moscow, Mühling met and befriended a Dostoevskian cast of characters, including a hermit from Tayga who had only recently discovered the existence of a world beyond the woods, a Ukrainian Cossack who defaced the statue of Lenin in central Kiev, and a priest who insisted on returning to Chernobyl to preach to the stubborn few determined to remain in the exclusion zone.

Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today’s most significant regions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781909961128
ISBN-10: 1909961124
Pagini: 342
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing

Notă biografică

Jens Mühling was an editor at a German newspaper in Moscow for two years. Since 2005, he has worked as an award-winning reporter for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Eugene H. Hayworth is the translator of several contemporary German novels.

Cuprins

ICE (KIEV)
The Puzzle
Russia is not a Country
Lenin’s Nose
The Saviour of Chernobyl
BLOOD (MOSCOW)
We Fight, We Reconcile
A Short History of the World
A Kettle of Water Minus the Kettle
The Trail of the Icons
Yevgeny of Chechnya
The Return of the Wooden Gods
WIND (SAINT PETERSBURG)
Peter the Seasick
The Last Heir to the Throne
A Would-Be Saint
24 Centimetres
Beetles and Communists
WATER (SIBERIA)
Trans-Siberian Chocolate
Do Bees Have a Five-Year Plan?
The Messiah of the Mosquitoes
You Shall Know Them by Their Beards
Where to, Arkashka?
Blood and Vodka
GRASS (THE STEPPES)
Wood People and Grass People
The Morgue of Yekaterinburg
The Cossacks’ Last Battle
A Trunk Full of Icons
WOOD (TAIGA)
Misha and Masha
The Secrets of Russian Women
The Long Walk to Paradise


Recenzii

“[Mühling] meets a bewildering variety of ‘old believers’ in a broader sense, from members of the sectarian Orthodox Church . . ., through stubbornly Leninist former Soviet citizens, to newly minted Slavonic pagans. They all want to tell Mühling their life stories which, in his empathetic retelling, provide glimpses into other lives that are vivid and frequently moving.”

“Jens Mühling is a brave man. . . . The spine of his narrative remains the quest for Agafya, for a woman whose ancestors, at each of ‘the crucial crossroads of Russian history’, had refused to follow the herd. . . . It won’t spoil the story to say that he and she (then 69) do finally meet, an encounter that Mühling describes movingly and elegantly. It’s a tribute to the translator, Eugene H Hayworth, that this never reads like a book that was first written in German.”

“A brilliant account of the Russian frame of mind.”

“[A] rich, eclectic travelogue.”

Descriere

When German journalist Jens Mühling met Juri, a Russian television producer selling stories about his homeland, he was mesmerized by what he heard: the real Russia and Ukraine were more unbelievable than anything he could have invented. The encounter changed Mühling’s life, triggering a number of journeys to Ukraine and deep into the Russian heartland on a quest for stories of ordinary and extraordinary people. Away from the bright lights of Moscow, Mühling met and befriended a Dostoevskian cast of characters, including a hermit from Tayga who had only recently discovered the existence of a world beyond the woods, a Ukrainian Cossack who defaced the statue of Lenin in central Kiev, and a priest who insisted on returning to Chernobyl to preach to the stubborn few determined to remain in the exclusion zone.

Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today’s most significant regions.