pickI've posted a couple of times about this one. I ended up finding its account of pre/ post Soviet ruptures very affecting.
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Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer: A Novel | 
pickI've posted a couple of times about this one. I ended up finding its account of pre/ post Soviet ruptures very affecting.
It's taken me a long time to appreciate this book (possibly because I tend to spread readings over years). I realized, however, that the courtyard of the Soviet-style apartment complex is itself a character with a unique beauty: something I can appreciate through some similar childhood memories
And this is what my date was.
When I was cashing out at the bookshop I got charged wrong and I said something to the cashier, but he said that he did it correct. So when I was in my vehicle I read added everything. I went back inside and apologized for being nit-picky and I said that I was charged wrong. The new cashier was a bit on the rude side. I don‘t know if she was having a bad day or what. So this has turned me off for that bookshop.
"Es war jener Hass, der aufkommt, wenn man im anderen wie in einem Spiegel plötzlich die Sackgasse sieht, in die das eigene Leben führt." Andreï Makine
"Wie ein frisch Operierter, der noch schwach und blutarm ist, schöpfte der Hof im Frühling neuen Atem." Andreï Makine
