Quest for an Island

by Vasily Aksyonov

Russian

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Василий Павлович Аксёнов) was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn (Ожог, Ozhog, from 1975) and Generations of Winter (Московская сага, Moskovskaya Saga, from 1992), a family saga depicting three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.

He was the son of Evgenia Ginzburg, jewish russian writer, teacher and survivor of a stalinist gulag.