Just the plague
Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila2021
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Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors. Inadvertently, he carries the virus with him from the lab. When his illness is discovered, the state machinery turns with terrifying efficiency, rounding up dozens of people. But for many, the distinction between this enforced, life-sparing isolation and the constant churn of political surveillance and arrests is barely detectable, and personal tragedy is not completely averted. Based on real events in the Stalinist Russia of the 1930s, this gripping novel, written in the late 1970s and rediscovered by the author during lockdown - and never before translated into English - surfaces uncomfortable truths about the current Russian regime and the pandemic crisis.
Main title:
Just the plague / Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡ ; translated by Polly Gannon.
Author:
Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila, authorGannon, Mary Catherine, 1953-, translator
Imprint:
London : Granta Books, 2021.
Collation:
144 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781783788057 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.735
LC class:
PG3489.2.L58
Local class:
FT PbkF
Language:
EnglishRussian
BRN:
2923382