Ink Stain

Ink Stain Book Description Yes, at the basis of everything lies a line, a line, a line. Take any two points in space, take any two objects; You can draw a line between them to connect them. There are invisible truths between everything in the world, they are all interconnected, they cannot be separated. Distance cannot be an obstacle to this truth; The truths get longer and longer, like rubber, and the longer they get, the tighter they connect things to each other. As you can see, there is a line between the inkwell and the ace on the parquet floor, between the pedal of the grand piano and the shadows of the tree branches falling on the window sill, between me and you. They are a kind of veins, veins that prevent the world from falling apart. In his stories, Mihail Şişkin feeds on "the veins that prevent the world from falling apart". He manages to present the realities of himself and his time from a new perspective, with a vivid imagination that very few writers have. Şişkin creates a world worthy of the glorious legacy of great Russian storytellers such as Gogol and Chekhov, in a wide range of subjects, from revolutionaries who gave up their lives and loves for the sake of great ideals to people who experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union. Bringing together eight stories of Şişkin, the great name of contemporary Russian literature, published at different times, Mürekkep Lekesi, translated from the Russian original by Erdem Erinç... (From the Promotional Bulletin)