Squaring the Circle

Whilst some influences are familiar - Pelevin and Gogol crop up frequently - this is recognisably the literature of an entirely new generation, one that has no real memory of the Soviet Union, that came of age in the era of Yeltsin and Putin, and has had to adjust to a radically different world from that experienced by any of their forebears.

And boy, have they managed it: from evocations of the Civil War to present troubles in the Caucasus, and from fanciful apocalypses to sober meditations on growing up with diabetes,  these emerging writers throw around their technical mastery, richness of perception and uniqueness of experience with a confidence that's almost terrifying.

Translated here for the first time into English, this is not a collection to miss.