On Friday, August 26, Hamid Ismailov, author of The Underground, will join Guillermo Erades, author of Back to Moscow, for a discussion at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Guillermo Erades was born in Malaga, Spain. He has lived in Leeds, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Moscow, Berlin, Baghdad, and Brussels, where he is currently based.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival began in 1983 and is now a key event in the August Festival season, celebrated annually in Scotland's capital city. Biennial at first, the Book Festival became a yearly celebration in 1997.
When: Friday, August 26, 2016 at 6:30pm
Where: Edinburgh International Book Festival, Writers' Retreat, Edinburgh, Scotland
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