Solovyov and Larionov

Eugene Vodolazkin

‘THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER’ – New Yorker

A groundbreaking & gripping literary detective novel set in Soviet-era Russia, from the award-winning author of Laurus & The Aviator

Can we ever really understand the present without first understanding the past?

From the winner of the 2019 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prize, & the author of the multi-award winning Laurus, comes a sweeping novel that takes readers on a fascinating journey through one of the most momentous periods in Russian history.

What really happened to General Larionov of the Imperial Russian Army, who somehow avoided execution by the Bolsheviks? He lived out his long life in Yalta leaving behind a vast heritage of undiscovered memoirs. In modern day Russia, a young student is determined to find out the truth.

Solovyov & Larionov is a ground-breaking & gripping literary detective novel from one of Russia’s greatest contemporary writers.

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Eugene Vodolazkin was born in Kiev & has worked in the department of Old Russian Literature at Pushkin House since 1990. He is an expert in medieval Russian history & folklore. Solovyov & Larionov is his debut novel. Laurus (Oneworld, 2015), his second novel but the first to be translated into English, won the National Big Book Award & the Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana Award & has been translated into eighteen languages. His third novel, The Aviator (Oneworld, 2018), was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize & the National Big Book Award. He lives in St. Petersburg.