Ilget: The Three Names of a Life By Alexander Grigorenko
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Ilget is the story of a frail foundling who loses his twin brother then by the will of mysterious supernatural forces goes from being a thrall under his adoptive father to the leader of a whole tribe He finds himself enslaved once when the Mongols invade the banks of his native Yenisei River but ultimately comes to realize a the greatest of blessings is to live without fear A Krasnoyarsk newspaper wrote of the novel The author works with myth like a skilled craftsman sculpting a dugout canoe from a cedar with powerful deliberate movements he hollows out the wooden interior and decorates the structure that emerges with coarse writing in praise of nameless spirits When you board this boat first your curiosity will be sparked then things might turn uncomfortable and you begin to understand that you will either perish or make it to the far shore Even ethnographic and exotic than Grigorenko s first novel Mebet Ilget is imbued with magical realism based on Siberian folklore and mythology Ilget The Three Names of a Life.