Camp Russia: On Zakhar Prilepin's "The Monastery" - Los Angeles Review of Books
Camp Russia: On Zakhar Prilepin’s “The Monastery” Zakhar Prilepin THE LAST TIME ONE of Zakhar Prilepin’s novels was translated into English, the 2014 Winter Olympics had just wrapped up in Sochi, and Putin was pretending to look the other way while his insignia-free soldiers marched into Ukraine. That April, Prilepin’s fast-paced, anti-government protest novel Sankya was published with a foreword by Alexei Navalny, himself no fan of the Russian state. In it, Navalny feted this young,...
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