The Interpreter

The protagonist of the novel “The Interpreter” is an artist who fled Russia and settled in Germany. Fate has brought him to a refugee camp, where he now works as an interpreter for “ex-Soviet folk”—citizens of former Soviet republics seeking asylum. The protagonist encounters Protestant women from Belarus, unlucky Ukrainian businessmen, the cultist Potap Orlov, and former communist Ivan Maly… An ironic, biting, humorous, and thoroughly politically incorrect novel about people and civilizations.