Portraits without Frames by Lev Ozerov ninth of november Winner of the Andrei Bely

Winner of the Andrei Bely Prize

Zhadan employs both prose and poetry to address the disillusionment

Click goes out for a day on the tracks and before long he’s so tired he doesn’t know where he is or how to get back

investigating the disappearance of thousands of missing Polish officers

with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building

Portraits without Frames by Lev Ozerov ninth of november Winner of the Andrei BelyLev Ozerov's finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, to prose writers Isaac Babel and Andrey Platonov, to artists and composers Vladimir Tatlin and Dmitry Shostakovich. It is both a testament to an extraordinary life and a perceptive mini encyclopedia of Soviet culture. Composed in delicate, rhythmic