From the Publisher
"The clarity and directness of Sharov's prose are disconcerting, almost hallucinatory. His writing is at times funny, at times so piercingly moving, so brimful of unassuaged sorrow, that it causes a double-take." — Rachel Polonsky, NY Review of Books
"Oliver Read hears and renders into English many stylistic registers, reminding us that Sharov began creative life as a poet. If it is true — and I believe it is — that translation requires the most intimate dialogue possible with another's consciousness, then Sharov's rebirth into English in such staggeringly fine prose is the perfect tribute to commemorate the departure of his mortal body." — Caryl Emerson in the Los Angeles Review of Books
