Asian Book

Lost in the taiga is a Mansi village, Persian literature, ascending to the foot of Everest... In A. Stesin's book, the cultural and geographical landscapes of Asia are revealed to the reader through personal stories - of the writer himself and the people he meets along the way. The exceptionally keen authorial gaze is combined with surprising delicacy towards foreign cultures, and the prose and poetry that arise from this blending are full of vivid details, subtle observations, and humor. The entire complexity of the historical experience of Asian communities, the biographies of their bearers, languages, folklore, high literature - it seems that Stesin is interested in everything, and he manages to convey this interest to his readers like no one else. Alexander Stesin is a poet, prose writer, traveler, and doctor, author of the books "Troy Against All", "The New York Detour", "African Book", "By the Way of Tea" and others. Laureate of the literary prize "NOS".