Mihhail Pavlovič Šiškin Orden de los libros

Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death. Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound.

Zauzimanje Izmaila je knjiga posvećena očuvanju sećanja na sopstvene tragove. To je razgovor o beskonačnom prošlom koje biva i pojedinačno i kolektivno. Zauzimanje Izmaila se sasvim jasno deli na istorijske i porodične fragmente. Kritičari kažu – kao kod Tolstoja, uz jednu osobenost: Šiškina srećne porodice uopšte ne zanimaju – mnogo mu je bliža hiljadugodišnja ruska nesreća.Pred čitaocem je roman zagonetka, roman misterija u čijem se nazivu već skriva intriga, jer ostavlja utisak da je reč o poznatom istorijskom događaju. Ipak, Zauzimanje Izmaila ni najmanje ne podseća na istorijski roman, mada u njegovoj osnovi leže događaji iz prošlosti...