Vladimir Sharov: The Kingdom of Agamemnon, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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The final novel by a titan of post-Soviet literature, this fantastical thriller about fakes and imposters in Russian history is both a rewrite of Greek myth and a spiritual sequel of sorts to The Brothers Karamazov.

Vladimir Sharov was one of the most significant novelists of the post-Soviet era, a historian by training whose fantastical fictions unflinchingly plumbed the dark depths of Russia's past. At once a rewrite of Greek myth and a sequel to The Brothers Karamazov , Sharov's ninth and last novelThe Kingdom of Agamemnon is a clear-eyed reckoning with the legacies of Stalinist state terror set in twenty-first century Moscow.

When Gleb, a young historian, embarks on a quest to recover a lost manuscript by fictional theologian and Gulag convict Nikolai Zhestovsky, his search leads him to a nursing home where he interviews Zhestovsky's daughter Galina. Calling herself Electra, Galina peels back the curtain to her family's complex history, weaving a tale of vengeance and terror to reveal a world where the line between victims and perpetrators are hopelessly blurred.

A fast-paced thriller, full of leaps in time, unexpected historical parallels, and keen psychological insights, The Kingdom of Agamemnonis an intricate meditation on memory, culture, complicity, and the lures of narrative.