![]() I suppose it comes from my desire to have this short story collection really read like a novel. ![]() ![]() it was sort of the sunny side of everything, a little bit, but at the same time, you couldn't help seeing in her, in the various people I met, the fact that even though Grozny today is pretty much entirely rebuilt, the traumas and the wreckage of this war is still unhealed inside of so many people.Īuthor Interviews Transcending Hardships By Saving Others In 'Constellation' And my tour guide was this really incredibly kind and welcoming woman named Elena, who was a government bureaucrat who'd sort of been placed in this similar position of, how do you rehabilitate a place like Chechnya in the international imagination. And so I took an 11-day tour called "The Seven Wonders of Chechnya," and I was the only tourist on this particular tour. And so when I went to Chechnya, I wanted to see his sort of real-life counterpart. ![]() This story sort of entwined with my own life in interesting ways - it's about a man named Ruslan, who is tasked by the powers that be to create a tourist bureau, to rehabilitate Chechnya's international image. On "The Grozny Tourist Bureau" and the stranger-than-fiction quality of Russian life ![]()
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