The Light and the Dark

Mikhail Shishkin author Andrew Bromfield translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Quercus Publishing

Published:2nd Jan '14

Should be back in stock very soon

The Light and the Dark cover

Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death. Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound.

'[A] powerful treatment of love and the vividness of being alive' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
'A literary masterpiece' Guardian. * Guardian *
'Shishkin is the Ian McEwan of Russia' Monocle. * Monocle *

  • Winner of Premiya "Bolshaya Kniga" (Russian "Big Book" Prize) 2011

ISBN: 9781780871080

Dimensions: 198mm x 132mm x 30mm

Weight: 316g

464 pages