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A Present Past

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A Present Past

By: Sergei Lebedev, Antonina W. Bouis - translator
Narrated by: Bert Seymour
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Bloomsbury presents A Present Past by Sergei Lebedev, read by Bert Seymour.

“Ghosts are not born by themselves. They are born of a silent conscience. They are as real as the ignored knowledge of crimes and the refusal to accept real responsibility. They are the distorted voice of the dead turned into mystical images. The voice of unwanted witnesses.”

A Present Past is a collection of short stories that brings to vivid life a post-Soviet world haunted by the secrets and crimes of its past. It features a judge overcome by the weight of his ruling, the stories of those that lie within the Pokrovsky Cemetery, discovered objects that transport us to another time and the documents of the KGB. Seamlessly blending history with fiction, politics with individualism, reality with magic, the eleven tales explore the unacknowledged crimes of the Soviet Union and Russian State, and shows how the devastating sins of the past pervade the present.©2024 Sergei Lebedev and Antonina W. Bouis (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Short Stories World Literature Soviet Union Russia Haunted
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