Yana Wagner «Vongozero» is a dystopia, disaster novel, road story, postmodern thriller.
Caught by surprise by an epidemic of a deadly virus, a small group of Muscovites are trying to escape in Karelia, on a small frozen lake in the middle of the taiga near the Finnish border. Eight adults and three children, four cars loaded to the brim with the essentials. A random company, united by one desire: to survive.
Yana Wagner’s book is read at the same speed with which her characters flee from death. A sticky feeling of fear grows with each page, although in the plot twists of the novel there are no zombies, no colorful military actions, no earthquakes, no universal flood. In this unthinkable race, all fears, previously deeply hidden inside, will intensify, long-drawn mental wounds will fester … All that they have been hiding inside themselves for years will break out.
The novel was nominated for the National Bestseller, NOS, Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle and Prix Russophonie awards, translated into 11 European languages.
Critics reviews:
“A road book, a road novel, an escape-from-the-wave novel, a simple and unusual genre. Almost four and a half hundred pages of the white road, more than a thousand kilometers of confidently buzzing panic. «
Viacheslav Kuritsyn
«With Wagner, the escape from the catastrophe (the escape is unthinkable, the escape is actually doomed) turns into a quest — according to all the classical Western canons.»
Victor Toporov
“A terrific psychological account of the agony of a society immersed in fear. Exciting»
Le parisien
© Yana Wagner
Recorded by the Vimbo Production Center
© & ℗ LLC «Vimbo», 2018
Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov
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