Neujahrsschnee

by Lazar Lagin, Lasar Lagin

Flockiger Schnee verzaubert die Neujahrsnacht. Nervös wandert Jura auf und ab - er erwartet seine Freundin. Plötzlich rutscht er aus. Als er wieder zu sich kommt, sieht er sich zurückversetzt in eine längst vergangene Epoche.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Lazar Yosifovych Lagin (Лазарь Иосифович Лагин) was the pen name of Lazar Ginzburg (4 December 1903, Vitebsk – 4 June 1979, Moscow). He was a Soviet author of children's and science fiction books.

Lagin is best known for his book Starik Hottabych (Старик Хоттабыч, Old Man Hottabych, 1937), a fairy tale telling the story of a genie who is freed from captivity by a Soviet schoolboy. The genie, as is to be expected, has some trouble in adapting to modern life values and technological development.

Lagin's science fiction novels are set in imaginary Western "Capitalist" countries and satirize misuse of scientific inventions in bourgeois society. His novella Major Well Andyou (Майор Велл Эндъю) is a satiric sequel to H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.

Lagin was also a screenplay writer, producing, for instance, the screenplay for the 1967 animation film Passion of Spies.