Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 3, 2009
DMITRIY SHEVAROV. PETROFIT
A military unit thrown into a far remote place in Russia. Middle of the 1980-s. In the funny episode which is the basis of this long short story those days’ life — not only that of the army — is mirrored as in the looking-glass.
ROMAN SENCHIN. The Eltishevs. A novel.
The story of life, downfall and destruction of an ordinary family — wife, husband, two sons — from some out-of-the-way place in Russia. Very bitter and — alas — very real today’s story. Maybe it is the best until now novel by our regular and already well-known author.
ALEXEI TORK. Two short stories: “Divorce” and “Riot”.
Some time ago we “fished” this talented Tajik author out of the stream of the texts pouring into our editorial office and have never regretted it. Here are two of his new short stories: as usually rooted in the local soil, full of comic situations, but very deep and often rather sad in observations and meditation, brilliantly reproducing picturesque and peculiar local style of speaking.
RAVIL BUKHARAEV. Charity of the Mother Tongue.
Language is the only tool of a poet, but when Ravil Bukharaev speaks and writes in Russian, Tatar, Hungarian and English it’s nearly an orchestra. The wreath of sonnets which the author presents to our readers creatively and biographically builds his native Tatarstan into Russia and Europe.