Yuri Melnikov

The Limbo Zone is not a novel in the conventional sense, nor is it merely a collection of short stories. It is a complex, polyphonic statement: a novella in fifteen parts, orbited by eight compan…

In a remote mountain village in northern Japan, a festival — a historical reenactment called “The Battle of Bun’ei” — takes place every year on New Year’s Eve. And every year, the village mayor r…