The Last of the Vostyachs
The Last of the Vostyachs
- ISBN 13:
9781907650567
- ISBN 10:
1907650563
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/01/2012
- Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
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Summary
As a child, Ivan and his father worked as forced labourers in a mine in Siberia, the father having committed some minor offence against the regime. He is then murdered in front of his young son, after which Ivan - who is a Vostyach, an imaginary ethnic group of whose language he is the last remaining speaker - is struck dumb by having witnessed his father's murder. some twenty years later the guards desert their posts and Ivan walks off free, together with the other inmates. Guided by some mysterious power, he returns to the region he originally came from... The Last of the Vostyachs won two literary prizes in Italy; the Premio Campiello and the Premio Stresa.