Anna Aslanyan

Lost in a time capsule

Charlotte Hobson’s promising debut novel explores the Russian avant-garde scene through the eyes of an English governess on the eve of the first world war

issue 28 May 2016

  • The Vanishing Futurist

    Charlotte Hobson

    Faber & Faber, pp. 320

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