Six Days

You can’t really say one thing about the novel “Six Days.” For example, that it’s a “coming-of-age” novel—after all, the hero is already an adult. Or that it’s a travel story—because here the characters travel unwillingly, and rather not through space but within themselves. And it isn’t a love story either—the hero isn’t being eaten up by romantic fever. A young writer, Sergey Vereskov, wrote a novel about a mother, even though the reader may, at different moments, feel that it’s about novels, travel, childhood, and youth.