Red Cross

5 hrs. 25 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Sasha Filipenko

Narrator Anatoly Bely

Description

Sasha Filipenko, a representative of the generation of “the last Soviet kids,” is a young writer—but already very well known. His audience appeared immediately after his debut book was released.

In his first historical novel, “Red Cross,” two shocking plots on the edge of plausibility are intertwined: a young hero who has lost his wife, and an elderly woman who has lived through war, camps, and all the horrors of Soviet times. A documentary thread is woven into the text with exceptional subtlety—an obscure history of contacts between the USSR People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and the International Red Cross during the Second World War.

Contemporary concerns, a cinematic concise style that works through subtext, and a collision of eras—these are Filipenko’s signature traits.

Sasha Filipenko’s novel “Red Cross” has been translated and published in Switzerland.

Soon the novel will be adapted for film.