#RivetingReads: Alisa Ganieva Recommends Leo Tolstoy’s HADJI MURAT
Tolstoy’s final work wasn’t published in his lifetime. It is dedicated to the tempestuous nineteenth-century Avar rebellion leader and a hero of the so-called Caucasian War, who was forced by circumstances to make an alliance with the Russians he had been fighting. It’s a book highly relevant to recent events in post-Soviet Russia.
Alisa Ganieva
Hadji Murat
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Alisa Ganieva is the author of three novels, The Mountain and the Wall, Bride and Groom and Salam, Dalgat!, as well as a collection of stories and essays. She has won several prizes in her native Russia, and in 2015, the UK’s the Guardian listed her among the thirty most talented young people in Moscow. Ganieva’s fiction has been translated and published in several countries.
Read Rosie Goldsmith’s recommendation of Alisa Ganieva’s THE MOUNTAIN AND THE WALL.
Read an excerpt of Alisa Ganieva’s THE MOUNTAIN AND THE WALL.
Read more on Russian literature in The Riveter. Edition Two – Riveting Russian Writing.
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