Teenage Orange Prize shortlist The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
Judge on Orange Prize Youth Panel
As well as being longlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize 2009, Gina Ochsner's first novel The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight has been shortlisted by the Orange Prize for Fiction Shadow Youth Panel.
The panel is made up of six teenagers aged 16-19, one of whom has said of The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Light, ‘Tears and laughter are handled with equal adeptness and a certain crazy slavishness permeates the prose of this story that explores some profound themes. A thoroughly charming book that makes for a highly exciting and interesting read.’
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The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight (First Hardback Edition)
‘Nothing stays dead in Russia.’ This bewitching novel of post-Soviet lives moves between the magical, the comical and the transcendent to portray a people who rely on dreams to defy the coming of dereliction and decay.
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Gina Ochsner
Born in 1970, Gina Ochsner has worked as a dog-walker, a substitute teacher, and in a shop selling cheese and puppets, and now lives in western Oregon with her husband and four children.
