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Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death. Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound.

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'[A] powerful treatment of love and the vividness of being alive' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
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The Light and the Dark

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    A Paperback / softback by Mikhail Shishkin, Andrew Bromfield

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      Publisher Quercus Publishing
      Published 2 January 2014
      ISBN-13 9781780871080
      978-1780871080
      ISBN-10 1780871082
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death. Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound.

      Trade Review
      '[A] powerful treatment of love and the vividness of being alive' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
      'A literary masterpiece' Guardian. * Guardian *
      'Shishkin is the Ian McEwan of Russia' Monocle. * Monocle *

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