![]() ![]() She was named one of Granta ’ s Best Young American Novelists of 2017. Her critically-acclaimed debut short story collection, One More Year, was published in 2008. Krasikov immigrated to the United States in 1987 from the Soviet Republic of Georgia. It is particularly relevant in the context of current political developments. The story, told from the perspectives of both Julian and Florence, explores the contradictions of human idealism, the cultural divides perpetuated by propaganda, and the ability to live in multiple realities at once. But, her son, Julian, rejects it, immigrating to the United States in the 1980s. Yet, even after her years in the Gulag, Florence maintains her idealism for the Soviet mission. Florence follows her lover to the Soviet Union in the 1930s, and finds herself trapped, eventually falling victim to Stalin ’ s purges. ![]() ![]() The book is a sweeping multi-generational saga spanning eight decades, and revolving around the family of Florence Fein, an American woman disenchanted with the Great-Depression-era United States. In January 2017, the award-winning Russian-American writer Sana Krasikov published her first novel, The Patriots. ![]()
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