A book blog about Russia in English-language fiction
James Hawes’ second novel screams 1990s Brit-lit in the same way that Blur and Oasis riff us back to the Britpop era whenever their guitar twangs ring out from an unsuspecting radio.
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Sam Golod’s heroine, Natalie, is a young English woman spending a post-degree year in St Petersburg in 1992, in the chaos of uncertainty and reckless opportunity of that astonishing time of state collapse.
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As readers of this blog know, the reviews here have a two-fold focus —what is the book like? And what about its representation of Russia in fiction?
Sam Golod is a novel with a strong sense of time and place. It is set in St Petersburg in the early 1990s.
Part two of this review is here.
Sophia Creswell’s Sam Golod (1996) is one of those works written by English writers who spent time in Russia during the extraordinary 1990s and sought to describe in prose those searingly memorable years.
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