‘A devastatingly beautiful elegy, and at the same time, a portrait of contemporary Russia… of a society that has hardened to such inhuman proportions that any form of vulnerability is crushed.’ DE TIJD

Blending fairytale, myth and autobiography, Through the Dark Woods is about the loss of a child and the moral disintegration of a country. It is an intimate, heart-rending letter from a father to his son, a terrifying portrait of Putin’s Russia and a work of literary art.

Above all, perhaps, it is an act of resistance in which the reader is invited to take part – a challenge to brute cynicism and a startling assertion of the power of literature and love.