In the summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves from New York to Moscow to
look after his ageing grandmother, a woman who survived the dark days of
communism and witnessed Russia's violent capitalist transformation,
during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her
home, even if she can't always remember who he is. Andrei learns to
navigate Putin's Moscow, still the city of his birth, but with more
expensive coffee.
He looks after his elderly - but surprisingly
sharp! - grandmother, finds a place to play hockey, a cafe to send
emails, and eventually some friends, including a beautiful young
activist named Yulia. Capturing with a miniaturist's brush the unfolding
demands of family, fortune, personal ambition, ideology, and desire, A
TERRIBLE COUNTRY is a compelling novel about ageing, radical politics,
Russia at a crossroads, and the difficulty - or impossibility - of
actually changing one's life.
A Terrible Country - Keith Gessen
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