Idaho

11 hrs. 14 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Emily Ruskovich

Narrators Olga Shorokhova, Alexey Bagdasarov

Narrator Olga Shorokhova

Narrator Alexey Bagdasarov

Description

Emily Ruskovich “Idaho”—a powerful debut novel about love and forgiveness, about memory and its absence. Winner of the international Dublin Literary Award. Ann and Wade live a hermetic life in harsh North Idaho conditions. They are bound not only by love but also by the tragedy that destroyed Wade’s first family. And by the memory that is gradually leaving Wade. Ann tries to gather its fragments—shards of someone else’s and mysterious drama. This poetic book is about memory, about forgetting, about overcoming it through unconditional love and self-sacrifice. Emily Ruskovich grew up in the mountains of North Idaho. She graduated from the University of Montana, earned a master’s degree in English at the Canadian University of New Brunswick, and then earned a master’s degree at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first prose attempts were published in magazines. In 2015, she became a winner of the O. Henry Award for the story “Owl.” But her true literary debut was the novel “Idaho.”