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The Russian Dreambook Of Colour And Flight (2009)

by Gina Ochsner(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1846270073 (ISBN13: 9781846270079)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Mariner Books

review 1: I appreciate magical realism and lyrical prose as much as the next person, but after a point there needs to be something substantive for the reader to hold onto - I could have walked away from this book at any point while reading and ended up where I did after slogging through 370 pages. There is a fine line between artful, absurdist whimsy and haphazard self-indulgence... only reason I'm giving it two stars instead of one is because there are brief moments of poignant characterization, there is interesting perspective on the highly diverse melting pot that is the former Soviet Union in the present day, and it was usually not boring (just ultimately pointless).
review 2: I received this book from goodreads; thank you! I enjoyed it a lot: the characters are mem... moreorable, the setting is so bleak, yet well described. There is a touch of the supernatural with a haunting of the slowly sinking apartment building. The strange museum full of replicas of second rate art and the cynical yet sometimes hopeful people scarred by perennial wars and multitudes of social problems add up to a fascinating read with even some humor thrown in. less

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