Will you be in Sweden for the Göteborg Book Fair this September? Hamid Ismailov, author of The Underground and The Railway, will be talking on a panel with Turkmen author Ak Welsapar and Swedish author Viveka Sjögren on Thursday, September 24 at 11:30am.
Organized by Författarcentrum (the Writers' Center) and Sveriges Författarförbund (the Swedish Writers Union), the event will be conducted in English and Swedish.
When: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:30am - 12:30pm
Where: Litteraturscenen, A-hallen, A01:60, Mässans gata 20, SE-412 94 Göteborg, Sweden
by Hamid Ismailov
Translated from the Russian by Carol Ermakova
Named one of “the best Russian novels of the 21st Century” (Continent Magazine), The Underground is the unforgettable story of an abandoned mixed-race boy navigating the wondrous and terrifying city of Moscow before the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Paperback ISBN: 9781632060440
Publication date: Sep 22, 2015
by Hamid Ismailov
"It is a work of rare beauty—an utterly readable, compelling book."
—Craig Murray, New Statesman
"All picaresque exuberance, a jumble of influences from Persian to Soviet and beyond."
—Catherine Lockerbie, Sunday Herald
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060181
Publication date: Feb 3, 2015
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