These adolescents drink, smoke, have sex and are generally able to cause as much havoc as any able-bodied student body. The students, for the most part confined to wheelchairs, fitted with prosthetics and afflicted with sensory disabilities are divided into separate classes, each with their own idiosyncratic styles, laws and secrets. A runaway success and cult favourite in Russia, in 2010 it was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has since won several other awards.īut where do I start with this complex and unusual tome?ĭivided into three books, this (magical realist?) novel tells the story of a group of students living in ‘the House’, a residential school for adolescents with disabilities. That blog led me to this 721 page epic that completely demolished the record for longest novel on this tour ( Saudi Arabia) by a whopping 247 pages. Struggling to find much fiction from this Caucasian country, I decided to take a little break from searching and soon after by complete accident, I stumbled across Mariam Petrosyan‘s (pictured below) name is a blog about fiction translated from Russian. “ The House was a strange place indeed …“
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