i just started reading this book today...i saw it at mcnally robinson. they have a book club that meets the first tuesday of the month, and this is the book of the month for april...i figured i would try this book club thing out so i bought a copy. so far i love it...and im only 30 pages in. olga grushin is an remarkable writer...her descriptions are concise, dreamlike and engaging, they seem so natural, which is rare...her rhythm is flawless and carries me along through the story effortlessly...im excited to finish the book. yay! here is one of my favorite paragraphs from the book --->
"there he stopped and leaned against the parapet to catch his breath. his legs were aching. below, the moscow river moved its slow, dense, brown waters, and from their depths emerged a flimsy upside-down city that existed only at night, created by a thousand shimmering intertwinings of streetlights, headlights, floodlights. the walls, churches, the bell towers of the underwater city trembled with a desire to break free, to float away with the current, to leave the oppressing, crowded, dangerous moscow far, far behind; but the night held them firmly, and they stayed on forever tethered to their places by infinite golden chain of reflections. other things were luckier in their flight -- a dead branch, a billowing white scarf, a fleet of cigarette butts, a gasoline stain widening in the beam of light...unable to tear his eyes away, sukhanov looked at the rainbow-colored film spreading across the water. the invitation burned in his pocket, and that unnameable feeling was beating its great black wings in the hollow of his soul..."
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