Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. One Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men . . .
This blackly comic novel shows the unsettling consequences of thinking for yourself under the Soviet system. Oleg Pavlov’s first novel, published when he was only 24, Captain of the Steppe was immediately praised for its chilling but humane and hilarious depiction of the Soviet Empire’s last years.
- ISBN10 1908276185
- ISBN13 9781908276186
- Publish Date 15 April 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint And Other Stories
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Language English