Farewell To Matyora
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the heart of Siberia, an ancient island village called Matyora faces an inescapable fate — submersion beneath the rising waters of a Soviet dam — and with it, the erasure of centuries of tradition, memory, and human identity. Farewell to Matyora chronicles the final days of this doomed community through the eyes of its eldest inhabitants, particularly the resilient Darya, who refuses to abandon her ancestral home without a fight, grieving not just for her village but for a way of life being swallowed whole by the march of Soviet progress. Valentin Rasputin, one of the most celebrated voices of the Russian Village Prose movement, crafts a deeply elegiac and morally urgent narrative that pits the soul of rural Russia against the cold machinery of modernity. Written in 1976, the novel stands as both a timeless meditation on loss, rootedness, and the sacred bond between people and their land, and a quietly devastating critique of ideological ambition at the cost of human heritage. Praised by Harrison E. Salisbury as the first fresh talented voice to speak from Russia since the sunburst of the young poets of the early Khrushchev era, Rasputin's prose carries the weight of folklore and the precision of a surgeon — leaving the reader to wonder what, truly, is lost when the waters rise.
Author: Valentin Rasputin
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the heart of Siberia, an ancient island village called Matyora faces an inescapable fate — submersion beneath the rising waters of a Soviet dam — and with it, the erasure of centuries of tradition, memory, and human identity. Farewell to Matyora chronicles the final days of this doomed community through the eyes of its eldest inhabitants, particularly the resilient Darya, who refuses to abandon her ancestral home without a fight, grieving not just for her village but for a way of life being swallowed whole by the march of Soviet progress. Valentin Rasputin, one of the most celebrated voices of the Russian Village Prose movement, crafts a deeply elegiac and morally urgent narrative that pits the soul of rural Russia against the cold machinery of modernity. Written in 1976, the novel stands as both a timeless meditation on loss, rootedness, and the sacred bond between people and their land, and a quietly devastating critique of ideological ambition at the cost of human heritage. Praised by Harrison E. Salisbury as the first fresh talented voice to speak from Russia since the sunburst of the young poets of the early Khrushchev era, Rasputin's prose carries the weight of folklore and the precision of a surgeon — leaving the reader to wonder what, truly, is lost when the waters rise.