“I am Moscow’s underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town.” So begins the story of Mbobo, the precocious 12-year-old narrator of this captivating novel by exiled Uzbek author and BBC journalist Hamid Ismailov. Born to a Siberian woman and an African athlete who came to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mbobo must navigate the complexities of being a fatherless, mixed-raced boy in the shaky terrain of the Soviet Union before its collapse.
The Underground
ISBN: 0989983242
ISBN 13: 9780989983242
Publication Date: December 02, 2013
Publisher: Restless Books
Pages: 248
Format: Kindle Edition
Authors: Hamid Ismailov, Carol Ermakova
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