The Light and the Dark

Synopsis

The only author to win all three major russian literary prizes (including the russian booker prize), mikhail shishkin is one of the most acclaimed contemporary russian literary figures. The guardian said of shishkin’s writing: “richly textured and innovative. Arguably russia's greatest living novelist. ” the wall street journal raved that "shishkin has created a bewitching potion of reality and fantasy, of history and fable, and of lonely need and joyful consolation. An exquisite novel. His sovereignty is over the invisible and the timeless. Mr.