The Last Of The Vostyachs

Description

The Last of the Vostyachs won two literary prizes in Italy: The Premio Campiello and The Premio Stresa. As a child, Ivan and his father work as forced labourers in a mine in Siberia, the father having committed some minor offence against the regime. Ivan’s father is then murdered in front of his young son, after which Ivan who is a Vostyach, an imaginary ethnic group of whose language he is the last remaining speaker is struck dumb by what he has witnessed. Some twenty years later the guards desert their posts and Ivan walks free, together with the other inmates. Guided by some mysterious power, he returns to the region he originally came from... "A 'genius' Helsinki mystery with a touch of The Killing." Nick Lezard in The Guardian

Promotion info

* Widespread review coverage in major Australian and New Zealand newspapers such as Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Courier Mail, West Australian, Dominion Post, The Press and NZ Herald * Widespread review coverage in major Australian and New Zealand general and literary publications such as The Big Issue, NZ Listener, Kill Your Darlings and North & South * Widespread review coverage in literary magazines such as Australian Book Review, Monthly and Kill Your Darlings * Widespread review coverage on blogs such as LiteraryMinded and Crikey's Liticism * Interviews in major newspapers such as the Sydney Morning Herald/Age * Extensive radio interviews across Australian and New Zealand to coincide with author tour * Author tour confirmed for May 2013 in Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Sydney and Melbourne * Early reading copies available to the trade * Budget for bookseller catalogues * Advertising in literary publications such as the ABR and The Monthly * Social media campaign * Featured in Text's newsletter and website

Awards

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012.