Description
The time is the twilight of the decrepit Brezhnev regime, the place, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia: the "Latin periphery of empire." A pensioner seeks justice for his dead wife, crushed by a falling crane--the very symbol of the "construction of socialism"--but comes up against hostility from a cynical system at best indifferent, at worst contemptuous of human life. With a keen, Gogolian eye for the grotesque, often squalid, details of everyday life in the USSR, Iulian Ciocan paints darkly humorous but compassionate portraits of Homo sovieticus, from crusty war veterans and lowly collective farm workers to venal Party bigwigs, as each comes to the disturbing realization that the lofty ideals of Soviet society were lies all along. And for idealistic young pioneer Iulian, the biggest disillusionment of all will be the abrupt revelation of Brezhnev's mortality.
Author: Iulian Ciocan
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 05/12/2020
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781628973495
ISBN10: 1628973498
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Historical | General