Hamid Ismailov
The Underground
- ISBN 13:
- 9781632060440
- author:
- Hamid Ismailov
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Restless Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 14 x 2.3 x 21 cm
- Genre:
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
The Underground by Hamid Ismailov is a captivating novel about an abandoned mixed-race boy navigating Moscow before the Soviet Union's collapse. Born to a Siberian woman and an African athlete, Mbobo faces complexities as a fatherless, mixed-race boy in the shaky terrain of the Soviet Union. Ismailov's novel tackles head-on the problems of race and the relationship between the individual and society in a thoroughly modern context. With echoes of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Ismailov emerges as a master of a new kind of Russian writing that revels in the sordid reality and diversity of the country today. This novel is a dizzying and moving tour of Moscow, on the surface and beneath, before its colossal fall.
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