White on Black

4 hrs. 10 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego

Narrators Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego, Efim Shifrin, Polina Tal Meltser

Narrator Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego

Narrator Efim Shifrin

Narrator Polina Tal Meltser

Description

"I am a hero. Being a hero is easy. If you don’t have arms or legs—you are a hero or a corpse. If you don’t have parents—hope for your arms and legs. And be a hero. If you have neither arms nor legs, and you also managed to be born an orphan—then that’s it. You’re doomed to be a hero for the rest of your days. Or die. I am a hero. I just don’t have any other way out."

“White on Black” by Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego

A brilliant autobiographical novel in stories, “White on Black,” which became a sensation even in magazine publication and later won the “Russian Booker” prize as the best novel of 2003.