A time-traveller’s life

Innokenty’s bourgeois, liberal, pre-Bolshevik anguish over what constitutes right action is a surprisingly successful fulcrum on which to balance a book. And we should expect nothing less from an author whose previous novel, Laurus, was a barnstorming thriller about medieval piety.

Reviewing The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin for The Guardian, 7 June 2018