This novel by Russian novelist and screenwriter Vladimir Gonik is set in eleven countries around the world. Orchestra is based on documentary materials: the author has delved into the archives and met eyewitnesses, and now he recounts secret operations that took place across the globe in the second half of the twentieth century. The novel tells of certain little-known and mysterious events, some of which the author was personally involved in, and it is a story of extraordinary human lives, and of course, love…
Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation, Russia.
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Author
Vladimir Gonik was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1939, and studied medicine in the Latvian city of Riga. He has been a foundry worker, a hospital orderly, a sailor on oceanic vessels, and a medic in the army. A keen athlete, he has practiced boxing, football, cross-country and downhill skiing, and he has served as a physician for Russian national teams and Olympic delegations in various sports. Alongside his other pursuits, he is a graduate of Moscow’s Institute of Cinematography. He is the author of twelve screenplays and seven books, and his work has been recognized with international and Russian awards for cinema.
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“Classically Russian in length and possibly ambition, Vladimir Gonik’s Orchestra, […] might prove the sleeper of the year. Three interlocking narratives and families play out over almost 40 years with the doomed Korean Air Lines flight 007 as the linchpin. […] Orchestra is like that: fatalistic yet hopeful; realistic yet with a dash of what most readers might find the paranormal; observant yet sentimental; passionate and patient.” Peter Gordon, Asian Review of Books
“[I]t is a rattling good old-fashioned thriller, such as Fredrick Forsyth might have written 50 years ago, or rather two thrillers intercut with each other.” Edward James, Historical Novel Society
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