Väderfenomen

Few people have heard of Kyshtym, a small town in the southern Urals, yet it belongs beside Chernobyl and Fukushima. Nearby stands Mayak, the secret complex where the Soviet bomb was developed in the 1950s. Igor grows up there, and one childhood discovery shapes everything after: a friend lying burned in the woods, an event the KGB covers up. A quarter of a century earlier, in 1957, a strange yellow cloud had drifted over the district, called weather by the authorities; since then people have gone bald, sickened and died. Switching between today's Russia and the Soviet fifties, the story deals with youth, hope and political cynicism, as Igor begins to believe the very soil is poisoning minds and bodies.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

426 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Russia, 1950s to the present

First published

2019 by Natur & Kultur

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9789127156920 (original)