The Return and Other Stories

Synopsis

People are on the move in all ten stories in this collection—coming home as in The Return, leaving home as in Rubbish Wind, traveling far away from their country as in The Locks of Epiphan —trying to improve their lives and those of others, searching and fleeing. Their journeys are accompanied by two motives, which characterize the writing of Andrey optimism and faith in the goodness of humanity, and abject despair at the cruelty and apparent senselessness of our existence.