Requiem for a Soldier

Set in the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope tale is peopled with soldiers and prisoners, hoboes and refugees and mice that steal medicines. Poetic, tragic and darkly comic, the novel is at once a grotesque portrayal of late Soviet reality and an apocalyptic allegory in the vein of Faulkner and Kafka.

Amplasata in vastele stepe kazahe ale Imperiului Sovietic care se prabuseste, povestea caleidoscop a lui Oleg Pavlov este populata de soldati si prizonieri, hoboi si refugiati si soareci care fura medicamente. Poetic, tragic si intunecat comic, romanul este in acelasi timp o portretizare grotesc a realitatii sovietice tarzii si o alegorie apocaliptica in fila lui Faulkner si Kafka.