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The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "labor-camp writing," Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the horrors...

Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds an osprey, "a fish hawk," mired in a pond of toxic residue from the oil sands industry, he sees...

W gorącej i hedonistycznej atmosferze Toucan Bay, karaibskiej enklawy na planecie Kunu Supia, z pustyni powraca legendarny szmugler syntetycznej melaniny Joe Sambucus Nigra. Za głowę dilera wyznaczono nagrodę, a w portowym burdelo-barze „U Houdiniego” czeka na niego gromada wrogów, w tym arcyadwersarz – skrytobójca Bo Nuggy. Przebieg akcji przerywają cyklicznie powracające flashbacki genetyczne, które...