Sakhalin Island

“The Island of Sakhalin” is both a paraphrase of Chekhov that Eduard Vernkin reveres, and a magnificent post-apocalypse, and an excellent adventure novel that’s impossible to put down, and a tender story of love, and a sad tale about lost hope. The book won’t leave either connoisseurs of classic literature or fans of Stanislaw Lem and the Strugatsky brothers indifferent. It has adventures, action, unpredictable twists—but it also has complex futurist constructions and philosophical reflections, and, of course, a sad—like all true—story of genuine love.