"Kazarosa" is about Perm in 1920. In a city that was only a year ago taken back by the Reds from Kolchak’s forces, the Petersburg singer Zinaida Kazarosa arrives with a tour. During a performance at the local Esperanto club, right on stage, she is murdered. The suspects are the Esperantists—people full of fire but also slippery. A world conspiracy of followers of Esperanto’s creator, Ludwig Zamenhof, is about to be uncovered…
In 1975, two participants of that story—old men—meet again. “Kazarosa” is a remembrance.
…“Kazarosa” is not a novel about a murder, but about a feeling for history. About lost time.