To the Lake
by Yana Vagner
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"Ousted from Moscow by a deadly epidemic, Anya and her husband must flee society, menaced by harsh Russian winter and desperate people. When a virulent flu sweeps through Moscow, killing hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, Anya and her husband, Sergey, decide to flee to a lake in the far north of Russia where they hope to sit out the epidemic. But as the wave of infection expands from the capital, they encounter obstacles, hazards, and aggression, with near escapes from death as they try show more to navigate their way through a harsh Russian winter, with diminishing supplies of petrol and food. And their troubles multiply as Sergey agrees to takes on unwelcome guests and Anna struggles with her own feelings of hostility and jealousy. Inspired by a real-life flu epidemic in Moscow, To the Lake was a number one bestseller in Russia and has now appeared in a dozen languages and been adapted into a Netflix TV series"-- show lessTags
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Vongozero is road story, psychological thriller, race for survival, and horror story all in one, telling the story of a group of people who set out for a small island at the Russian-Finnish border in the midst of a pandemic. Vagner's measured pace fits her characters and situations beautifully, and I can just picture the deserted, snowy Russian roads.
(There's more about Vongozero on my blog, here.)
(There's more about Vongozero on my blog, here.)
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- To the Lake
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- Russia
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- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
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- 891.735 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1991–
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- PG3493.74 .A36 .V66 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 2001-
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