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Archipelago Books

Horsemen of the Sands

Horsemen of the Sands

by Leonid Yuzefovich, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz

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In a Soviet elementary school, a bombastic teacher lectures his young students on traffic accidents and family separation, unwittingly stirring an emotional crisis. A lost wallet, an office fling, an upset stomach—the minutiae of life unveil the private tragedies at the heart of a school community.

A world away, an old herdsman entrances a young tank commander with the legend of Baron Ungern, the real-life White Russian officer who conquered Mongolia. A foggy epic unfolds, a tale of faith and revenge centering on a mysterious amulet, said to make the wearer invincible. From the dim of the classroom to the vast Mongolian steppe, Leonid Yuzefovich’s masterful novellas The Storm and Horsemen of the Sands drill straight to the core of human emotion. These Russian parables illuminate the fears, passions, and ambitions beneath the grandest acts and the tiniest gestures.

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Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9781939810090
Pages: 234
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Praise

Shot through with a mythic and cipherlike style, Yuzefovich’s novellas are cogent depictions of faith, obsession, power, and the ties that bind.
—Publishers Weekly

Without discarding realism, this finely counterpointed tale suggests that magic works only if one believes in it. The same can be said of fiction, and Leonid Yuzefovich’s writing certainly has what it takes to earn our trust.
—Anna Aslanyan, The Times Literary Supplement

Beware the “smell of electricity” wafting through the story and remarked upon obliquely by its character: this novella is charged throughout and leaves a scorching impression.
—Sabrina Jaszi, Reading in Translation

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