Stargorod: A Novel in Many Voices

About the Author

Peter Aleshkovsky was born in 1957 and graduated some two decades later from Moscow State University. He worked for several years as an archaeologist in Central Asia and as a historical preservationist in the Russian North before turning full-time to literature in the mid-1990s. He has authored a dozen books and first attained literary success with Stargorod, followed by the works Seagulls; Skunk: A Life (translated into English by Glas); Vladimir Chigrintsev, The Institute of Dreams and The Other Side of the Moon. Aleshkovsky has thrice been short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize, most recently in 2006, for Fish: A History of One Migration, which was published in 2010 by Russian Life Books.