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The Librarian, Mikhail Elizarov ; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

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The Librarian

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Mikhail Elizarov ; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

An epic full of video game-like battles, Russian landscapes and old babushkas, who fight with scythes... As the introduction to this book will tell you, the books by Gromov, obscure and long forgotten propaganda author of the Soviet era, have such an effect on their readers that they suddenly enjoy supernatural powers. Understandably, their readers need to keep accessing these books at all cost and gather into groups around book-bearers, or, as they're called, librarians. Alexei, until now a loser, comes to collect an uncle's inheritance and unexpectedly becomes a librarian. He tells his ex

Cover; Title Page; Epigraph; Contents; PART I: The Books; Gromov; Lagudov; Shulga; Mokhova; The Mokhova Threat; Libraries and Reading Rooms; The Battle of Neverbino; PART II: The Shironin Reading Room; The Book of Memory; Uncle Maxim; Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; The Inheritance; The Buyer; The Ambush; The First Night. The First Day; The Meeting; The Book; Terror; The Satisfaction; The Return; At Home; Timofei Stepanovich; Tanya; Marat Andreyevich; The Other Readers; A Little Debt; The Librarian; In Kolontaysk; The Pavliks; Seven Against Seven; The Uglies; The Village Hut; The CremationQuarantineScrewed; A Meditation On Stalin Chinaware; The Search for Meaning; The Flight; The Village Soviet; Through the Forest; Breathing Space; The Assault; The Appearance of Gorn; The Little Grandson; PART III: The Curator of the Motherland; The Bunker; In the Old Folk's Home; The Viewing; Under Lock and Key; Curator of the Motherland; About the Publisher; Copyright