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NEXT ISSUE OUT WEDNESDAY 17 ' AUGUST
16 THE LIST FESTIVAL MAGAZINE ' '
Alexander Garros & Aleksei Evdokimov
The winners of the Rus ian Literary Prize in 2003 were not even Russian. Latvian journalists and
childhood friends, Garros and Evdokimov hit paydirt with their debut novel Headcrusher, which has sold 80,000 copies in Russia. Its hero Vadim spends his time playing violent computer games and getting increasingly
frustrated by his mundane office job. Then, he starts killing people for real.
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/'iz;'/>:ii a George has all this and were, its an intriguing read that rvtanages to keep ttie great cerebral {I(EI(?(II|‘.(E at a distance. 'It's Doyle in act on rather illétl‘ [)oyle at his desk] says Barnes. “All of the l lolmes stuff is go: oxer guite guickly. because I didn't '.'.’£t.'li lc clog It up with convoluted plot st'ands.
'I found it a fascinating case. and in practical terms it helped establish the (toxin ol criminal appeal. There's Just so much there“ the detective eleinent. tiii- i!‘4f;<;£trrra(_ge ol jlifSilCO. the love f;‘.<;",‘ and the spiritualism side. which I found ;'rr:ve<libl\, interesting because l‘e took it very. seriously. as a let of t (t‘.'.’£t.’(ll£t.’lf3 did.
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TARIG ALI
Veteran foe of fundamentalism
The revolution, it has been claimed. WI” not be televrsed. But say Gil Scott- Heron was wrong, and the cameras were rolling as the walls come tumbling down. one could expect Tarig Ali to appear With the mother of all soundbites.
"During the Vietnam war. we set up a war crimes tnbunal,’ Ali told a post 7, 7 political meeting. 'One reason was that Jean Paul Sartre and Bertrand Russell said that war crimes were being committed. We were attacked by the media and told it was fantasy until the My Lai massacref
Ever the foe of fundamentalism. whether the Islamist variant or the neo liberal strain (the latter an ineVitable by-product of the mother of all empires. in his View). he still rages against those who go to war in the name of peace. Polemicist. author and critic. Ali's desire to fight the big political lies of imperial ideology with a radical's intelligence and a certain dishevelled brand of urbane charm is clearly undiminished.
At the age of (it). two years yOunger than Ali is now. his hero Trotsky wrote: "For 43 years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist . . . life is
beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all eVil. oppression. and Violence and enjoy it to the full.‘ Recommended reading: To discover what fired up Lev DavydoVich Bronstein. check out Ali's Introducing Trotsky (‘5‘. Marxrsin. (Rodger Evans)
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JUNG CHANG From epic memoir to blood-soaked dictator
The opening day author session with Jung Chang is one of the most eagerly anticipated events at this year's Book Festival. The Chinese-born writer. who now resides in England. is rightly feted as the author of Wild Swans. an extraordinary memoir chronicling three generations of Chang family women. from the sale of Chang's grandmother to a warlord in 1924. through her mother's life in the early communist period to Chang '5; own experiences as a Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution and eventual voluntary exile to Europe in 1978. The best-selling book also provided astonishing insight into China's tumultuous 20th century history.
Fans of Wild Swans have waited about 14 years for Chang’s latest work — an absolutely captivating. provocative biography of China's dictator. entitled Mao: The Untold Story and published this year to Widespread acclaim. Collaborating with her husband. the historian Jon l-lalliday. Chang has unearthtxl reams of material through exhaustive intemews and archive research that