Good news for lit lovers: Mikhail Shiskin’s 2005 novel Maidenhair, is now available in English translation. “This is the kind of book
they give the Nobel Prize for,” a literary critic once
said about this book.
“Maidenhair” is not light reading. The
interlocking narratives fuse and fragment in this literary masterpiece, whose
ambitious goal encompasses the recreation of language in order to express
truths about love and death, loss and happiness. One idea that weaves its way into each of the stories is that “whoever can be happy right now, should,” that pain and joy are connected: “True enjoyment of life can only be felt if you’veknown suffering.”
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