Archaeologists

26 hrs. 20 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Vyacheslav Stavetsky

Narrator Georgy Arsenyev

A dynamic novel-parable about the human lot in today’s reality. Through a steppe engulfed by the Troubles races the “Archeobus”—a dusty wagon where the Team rides: six archaeologists, as if embodying the image of Russia itself. On their path are ruin, uprisings, and a chain of trials that will force everyone to understand the cost of an ideal in a world that has fallen apart to the very foundations.

Vyacheslav Stavetsky is a Russian prose writer, a finalist of the “Yasnaya Polyana” and “Bolshaya Kniga” awards.

Vyacheslav Stavetsky is a prose writer, author of the novel “Life of A.G.”, a finalist of the “Bolshaya Kniga” and “Yasnaya Polyana” awards.

The scorching, dried-out August—probably our days. An endless Russian steppe, wild and only seeming calm. Down empty back roads flies the “Archeobus”—a dust-covered wagon with the Team: six archaeologists carry out a mission for some Office. They are like scouts: they need to examine ravines and riverbanks, searching for traces of ancient human presence. But under pressure from ominous events from outside, the trip will no longer be an ordinary expedition—it will become for all six of them a heavy, and sometimes dangerous, odyssey…

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