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The Last of the Vostyachs
The Last of the Vostyachs won two literary prizes in Italy: The Premio Campiello and The Premio Stresa.
As a child, Ivan and his father work as forced labourers in a mine in Siberia, the father having committed some minor offence against the regime. Ivan's father is then murdered in front of his young son, after which Ivan -- who is a Vostyach, an imaginary ethnic group of whose language he is the last remaining speaker -- is struck dumb by what he has witnessed. Some twenty years later the guards desert their posts and Ivan walks free, together with the other inmates. Guided by some mysterious power, he returns to the region he originally came from...
As a child, Ivan and his father work as forced labourers in a mine in Siberia, the father having committed some minor offence against the regime. Ivan's father is then murdered in front of his young son, after which Ivan -- who is a Vostyach, an imaginary ethnic group of whose language he is the last remaining speaker -- is struck dumb by what he has witnessed. Some twenty years later the guards desert their posts and Ivan walks free, together with the other inmates. Guided by some mysterious power, he returns to the region he originally came from...
Book Details
- Publisher: Dedalus
- Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2012
- Pages: 168
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 4.90in - 0.70in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781907650567
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
Marani, Diego: - Diego Marani was born in Ferrara in 1959. He works as a senior linguist for the European Union in Brussels.
Every week he writes a column for a Swiss newspaper about current affairs in Europanto, a language that he has invented. His collection of short stories in Europanto, Las Adventures des Inspector Cabillot has been published by Dedalus.
In Italian he has published seven novels, including the highly acclaimed New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs.
Every week he writes a column for a Swiss newspaper about current affairs in Europanto, a language that he has invented. His collection of short stories in Europanto, Las Adventures des Inspector Cabillot has been published by Dedalus.
In Italian he has published seven novels, including the highly acclaimed New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs.
Landry, Judith: - was educated at Oxford where she obtained a first class honors degree in French and Italian. She teaches and translates fiction, art and architecture.
Her translation of Marani's New Finnish Grammar won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and was shortlisted for The Best Translated Book.
Her translation of Marani's New Finnish Grammar won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and was shortlisted for The Best Translated Book.
Praise for this book
"A 'genius' Helsinki mystery with a touch of The Killing."--Nick Lezard in The Guardian
"Marani is obsessed by language and how it defines us. Here's a gifted European linguist also gifted at describing who we are as Europeans."--Rosie Goldsmith in The Independent