Palisandria

“Palissandria” is a postmodernist, grotesque and parodic “anti-novel” by one of the greatest writers of our time—Sasha Sokolov. This is “Lolita, but the other way around!” readers often say. Although, by the estimates of many colleagues and critics, Sasha may well have surpassed even the greatest master—Nabokov. And in terms of the significance of his contribution to Russian literature among his contemporaries, he is compared to Brodsky.

Perfecting his texts over time and in the years that followed, in “Palissandria” Sasha demonstrates an incomparable, brilliant ability to handle the Russian language, speech, and the flow of thought. You can’t “get enough air” from the “Air” of this book—you have to reread it again and again, diving headfirst, joining yourself to the great and enduring, eternal art.