2017 - Softcover

Praise for "2017"
"It is an unsettling but satisfying experience." -- "The New York Journal of Books"
"Slavnikova is a cheeky, intelligent, and forceful storyteller, and the book-which won the 2006 Russian Booker Prize-is a love story and treasure hunt, with the unlikely, downtrodden hero Krylov at the helm... Slavnikova is a thoroughly modern writer; her cutting humor and over-the-top descriptions of classic Russian characters and nouveau-riche thugs recall Russian-born American writer Gary Shteyngart... Though the plot twists can be outlandish, Slavnikova''s sensitivity to detail, character, and the human condition keeps "2017" clear in the reader''s mind, long after the excursion is over." -"ForeWord"
"But Slavnikova''s characters are magnetizing, and her crystal clear vision of a world in which "commercial infinities" choke off humanism and art is salubriously caustic."-" Booklist"
"In short, a gem." - "Russian Life"
"Slavnikova''s style - ric

Praise for "2017"

"It is an unsettling but satisfying experience." -- "The New York Journal of Books"

"Slavnikova is a cheeky, intelligent, and forceful storyteller, and the book-which won the 2006 Russian Booker Prize-is a love story and treasure hunt, with the unlikely, downtrodden hero Krylov at the helm... Slavnikova is a thoroughly modern writer; her cutting humor and over-the-top descriptions of classic Russian characters and nouveau-riche thugs recall Russian-born American writer Gary Shteyngart... Though the plot twists can be outlandish, Slavnikova''s sensitivity to detail, character, and the human condition keeps "2017" clear in the reader''s mind, long after the excursion is over." -"ForeWord"

"But Slavnikova''s characters are magnetizing, and her crystal clear vision of a world in which "commercial infinities" choke off humanism and art is salubriously caustic."-" Booklist"

"In short, a gem." - "Russian Life"

"Slavnikova''s style - rich, mystical, sometimes almost incantatory - is also striking..."2017" is an odd piece of work, but it has its rewards." -- Complete Review
""2017" is packed so full of ideas and images it sometimes threatens to explode under the pressure. Its strength is in its linguistic subtlety and ingenuity."---"Telegraph"
"An unsettling but satisfying experience."--"The New York Journal of Books"

"Slavnikova is a cheeky, intelligent, and forceful storyteller... her cutting humor and over-the-top descriptions of classic Russian characters and nouveau-riche thugs recall Russian-born American writer Gary Shteyngart."--"ForeWord "

"An unsettling but satisfying experience." -- -"The New York Journal of Books"
"Slavnikova is a cheeky, intelligent, and forceful storyteller... her cutting humor and over-the-top descriptions of classic Russian characters and nouveau-riche thugs recall Russian-born American writer Gary Shteyngart." -- "ForeWord "

"An unsettling but satisfying experience." "The New York Journal of Books"
"Slavnikova is a cheeky, intelligent, and forceful storyteller her cutting humor and over-the-top descriptions of classic Russian characters and nouveau-riche thugs recall Russian-born American writer Gary Shteyngart. "ForeWord ""

In a Russian Booker Prize-winning tale set 100 years after the revolution in a region of painful class distinctions, a wealthy professor launches an expedition to locate a cache of priceless rubies while his gem-cutter protégé begins a scandalous affair that is overshadowed by his ex-wife and a spy.