- Published: 03/05/2010
- ISBN: 9781846271786
- 129x20mm
- 256 pages
One More Year
Sana Krasikov
The protagonists of Sana Krasikov’s indelible stories are mostly women – some of them are new to America; some still live in the former Soviet Union, in Georgia or Russia; and some have returned to Russia to find a country they barely recognize and people they no longer understand. Mothers leave children behind; children abandon their parents. Almost all of them look to love to repair their lives, and when love isn’t really there, they attempt to make do with a paler, lighter imitation of it, with substitutes for love.
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Sana Krasikov is a brilliant new writer. The stories of One More Year are populated by imperfect characters who always surprise, and who are gloriously brought to life with humor, sympathy, and unexpected tenderness
Khaled Hosseini, author of THE KITE RUNNER and A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
With great tenderness Krasikov reminds us that the immigrant cannot leave their personality behind when they leave the old country; and, these days, the immigrant cannot leave their family, either. I can't think when I've read a writer who has more effectively and subtly portrayed the relief and torture that the age of the cheap intercontinental phone call has brought. In Krasikov's hands, even committing to love and be loved can be an act of emigration
James Meek, author of THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVE
The debut of a major literary voice shaped by the literary traditions of both America and Russia
Yiyun Li, Guardian Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS
From the Same Author
The Patriots
Sana Krasikov
‘A sweeping, colourful read’ Mail on Sunday
Lose yourself in the irresistable story of one woman’s journey through 20th-century Russia.
Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn’t think twice about abandoning America – only to discover, years later, that America has abandoned her.
Now, as her son Julian travels back to Moscow – entrusted to stitch together a murky transcontinental oil deal – he must dig into Florence’s past to discover who his mother really was and what she became. He must also persuade his own son, Lenny, to abandon his risky quest for prosperity in the cut-throat Russian marketplace. As he traces a thread from Depression-era America, through the collective housing and work camps of Stalin’s USSR, to the glittering, oil-rich world of New Russia, Julian finally begins to understand the role he has played – as a father, and as a son.
Epic in sweep and intimate in detail, The Patriots is both a compelling portrait of the entangled relationship between America and Russia, and a beautifully crafted story of three generations of one family caught between the forces of history and the consequences of past choices.
Sana Krasikov on Granta.com
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Remembering Westgate
Sana Krasikov
‘I wonder if the only way to grasp what is terrifying and unimaginable for those of us who haven’t experienced it is to feel around the contours of inescapability, the boundary of its negative space.’
In Conversation | Granta 139
Sana Krasikov and Viv Groskop In Conversation
Sana Krasikov & Viv Groskop
Sana Krasikov and Viv Groskop discuss the Soviet experience, the rise of mass cynicism and the politics of Russia and the US today.
Fiction | Granta 139
Qualitative Leaps
Sana Krasikov
‘Breaking your family’s heart was the price you paid for rescuing your own.’
