Sana Krasikov - 'One More Year'.This collection of short stories was a pleasure to read. It starts off quite slowly truth be told, but each story has completely engaging characters that you find yourself completely involved in towards the end of the story. It follows various immigrants from the former Soviet Union and their lives in America. This includes affairs, arguments, lost family and whole manner of other subjects, all of which tend to spring up in Soviet area literature. And for good reason, no one writes about these subjects like those in the east. Take loneliness for example. Whilst everyone on the planet has experienced loneliness at some point, the people from the former Soviet Union seem able to express loneliness in a far more poetic form than most, and it shines through not only in literature but also in film. This is a great little book, and to think its her first! Fantastic.
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