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By Vijai Maheshwari

ISBN-10: 0955877113

ISBN-13: 9780955877117

a singular set within the frenetic gold rush of post-communist Russia earlier than its all-too short style of uncooked capitalism collapses within the nice financial crash of 1998. the bright yet unstable Godunev, a former Moscow kiosk employee, returns from manhattan and Miami hoping to make a brief fortune whereas the country’s resources are nonetheless up for grabs. utilizing his hipster credentials to infiltrate Moscow’s aspirational rising super-rich “biznismen” scene, he will get stuck up in machinations to denationalise the Kremlin, and finally reveals himself out of his depths in a Russia of oligarchs, gangsters, versions and prostitutes that's hurtling in the direction of its personal loss of life. yet amidst the violence, callousness and audacity of the time, Gudonev additionally displays a lot of his countrymen’s sentiments: the fervour of relationships; the extremities of existence; a re-assertion of Russian tradition; and a pervasive love-hate courting with the united states and the West.

Vijai Maheshwari is an Indian-American author who has lived in post-Communist jap Europe because the early Nineties. He began a writers’ workshop in Prague, used to be editor-in-chief of Russian Playboy, a correspondent for Britain’s monetary instances and Moscow’s notorious substitute paper, the eXile. he's the founder and editor of B-East, jap Europe’s provocative life and model smooth. earlier than arriving in jap Europe, he studied Physics less than iconic scientist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.

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