02388cam a2200337 4500 1071853730 TxAuBib 20231209120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781954404199 1954404190 B0BNLPYXGC Amazon 7deae844-6f7b-47d8-8df7-7b85bf96e79d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9452319 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lebedev, Sergei. A Present Past [Libby eBook] : Titan and Other Chronicles. New Vessel Press, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4885kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:"A tour de force—exquisite and gripping."—Philippe Sands, author of East West Street The Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them more movingly than Russian author Sergei Lebedev, who in this stunning volume probes a collective guilty conscience marked by otherworldliness and the denial of misdeeds. These eleven tales share a mystical topography in which the legacy of totalitarian regimes is ever-present—from Katyn to Chechnya, from Lithuanian KGB documents to the streetscape of unified Berlin, from the fragments of family history to the echoes of foot soldiers in Russia's wars of aggression. In these stories, as in Lebedev's acclaimed novels, the voices of things, places, animals, and people seek justice for a restless past, where steel claws scrape just beneath the surface and where the heredity of evil is uninterrupted, unacknowledged, unnamed.. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-12-09 20:00:02. Bouis, Antonina W. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7deae844-6f7b-47d8-8df7-7b85bf96e79d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7deae844-6f7b-47d8-8df7-7b85bf96e79d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7deae844-6f7b-47d8-8df7-7b85bf96e79d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)