Paper Mache 1917 is the author's first novella and celebrates the
centenary of the Russian Revolution. The epic work explores timeless
themes of war, love and hate, tragedy and redemption and offers a fresh
historical look at the revolutionary forces unleashed before and after
the Russian Revolution in 1917. In some cases, the story uses images
made popular by Imaginism, a poetic school founded in Moscow after the
Revolution in 1918. The story opens in 1905 and follows the lives of
Johan Wagner, a radio specialist in the German Wehrmacht and Rosa
Kautsky, a Polish born pianist and translator. The story performs a
delicate dance between the meta and macro of people and places in a
complex time - against the backdrop of the two major ideologies of the
20th century: the rise of German National Socialism and Soviet
Communism. Original translations capture the creative forces of writers
like Marina Tsvetaeva, and Goethe - voices not often heard in the West.