Russia’s modern writers are dogged by a cursed question: “Are you the new Tolstoy?“ Russia’s leading modern novelists talk about their difficulties in finding a global audience in a crowded global marketplace. With contributions from Boris Akunin (author of the ’Fandorin’ mysteries), Zakhar Prilepin (’Sin’), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (’Daniel Stein, Translator’), Olga Slavnikova (’2017’), and Mikhail Shishkin (’Venus Hair’).
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