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Andrei Volos

Born

in Stalinabad (Dushanbe), Tajikistan

August 04, 1955

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Contemporary

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"Andrei Volos became widely known among Russian readers only after he was awarded the prestigious Italian literary prize “Moscow-Penne” for his series of interrelated stories entitled Khurramabad Trilogy (Хуррамабадскую трилогию) in 1998. (Previous winners of this prize included Valentin Rasputin, Fazil Iskander, Liudmila Petrushevskaia, and Liudmila Ulitskaia). A year later Andrei Volos won an even more prestigious literary prize, the “Anti-Booker.” And he won it on the basis of the manuscript for the then still unpublished novel, Khurramabad. Just a year and a half later Volos published Khurramabad in book form (in 1999 the novel had been published in the journal Novy mir).

Khurramabad takes place in or is linked with Tadjikistan and the "Andrei Volos became widely known among Russian readers only after he was awarded the prestigious Italian literary prize “Moscow-Penne” for his series of interrelated stories entitled Khurramabad Trilogy (Хуррамабадскую трилогию) in 1998. (Previous winners of this prize included Valentin Rasputin, Fazil Iskander, Liudmila Petrushevskaia, and Liudmila Ulitskaia). A year later Andrei Volos won an even more prestigious literary prize, the “Anti-Booker.” And he won it on the basis of the manuscript for the then still unpublished novel, Khurramabad. Just a year and a half later Volos published Khurramabad in book form (in 1999 the novel had been published in the journal Novy mir).

Khurramabad takes place in or is linked with Tadjikistan and the fictional city of Khurramabad, whose real-life prototype is Dushanbe. Its protagonist is a man who becomes a stranger in his own country. With the collapse of the USSR this Russian, who has remained in Tadzhikistan, begins to question the meaning of the word “Motherland.” Formerly, his native land included all the broad expanses of the USSR, and Tadzhikistan was his homeland. But now the Tadzhiks do not acknowledge the Russians and hold them responsible for all their problems. And the Russians find it very painful to abandon the land that has given them shelter. Yet he has no choice. But in Russia, too, he is regarded as a stranger. He's a stranger everywhere.

Khurramabad became one of the most readable books of contemporary Russian prose, and in 2001 Andrei Volos was awarded a State Prize of the Russian Federation.

Not long thereafter Volos published his new novel, Real Estate (Nedvizhimost'). It is set in Moscow, and its hero is a realtor who sells apartments, a man given to reflection but with the capacity to adapt to the new circumstances. Choosing such a protagonist allowed the author to construct an unusually dynamic plot, to describe a broad range of vivid psychological types, and to reproduce the feverish tempo of today's Russian life, a milieu that oftentimes seems only a senseless bustle. In this novel Volos has found the golden mean between the “bestseller” with an exciting plot and serious “confessional” literature; in so doing he has created a genuinely contemporary novel that continues the traditions of Russian literature.

Volos himself believes that there are specific echoes of Khurramabad in this novel. Its characters seem to speak different languages and do not manage to connect with each other; or, to put it another way, they are “communicatively challenged.”" (Toronto Slavic Quarterly) ...more

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	Возвращение в Панджруд by Andrei Volos, Андрей Волос 3.18 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hurramabad by Andrei Volos, Arch Tait (Translator) 3.51 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	رمانی با یک طوطی by Andrei Volos, آبتین گلکار (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animaattori by Andrei Volos, Anton Nikkilä (Translator) 2.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Καταιγίδα στην Καμπούλ by Andrei Volos, Λεωνίδας Καρατζάς (Translator) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Победитель 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Недвижимость 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Предатель it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mymoon 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“تمام زندگی من در اینجا سپری شده است، در کتابخانه، وسط کتاب ها، هر چیزی که می دانم کتاب ها به من داده اند، کتاب هایی اینقدر متنوع و اینقدر زنده... در هر کدامشان قلب فنا ناپذیر خالقی می تپد؛ گیریم گاهی این قلب ابله است، گیریم گاهی حتی سیاه و بد ذات است، اما دقیقا همین ها هستند که شخصیت مرا شکل داده اند...”
― Andrei Volos, رمانی با یک طوطی

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“یکاترینا سیمیونوونا طغیان خود را این طور توجیه می کرد که روسیه ی کبیر همیشه شکم انواع و اقسام مفت خورها را سیر کرده، ولی حالا دیگر در ایین کشور برای خود روس ها هم به اندازه ی کافی کار نیست.”
― Andrei Volos, رمانی با یک طوطی

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“ذوق و قریحه در هر چیزی آشکار می شود.”
― Andrei Volos, رمانی با یک طوطی

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