Provisionally Yours postwar novel is a story of the margins GlobeArts
“All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life: revolution and famine, currency depreciation and terror, epidemics and emigration; I have seen great mass ideologies grow before my eyes and spread …”to open his new novel, although he could as well have picked this one to introduceProvisionally Yours
Enter Justas Adamonis, recently of both Russia’s Red and White armies, exhausted by the mindless violence, now returned to his hometown of Kaunas, the provisional capital of newly independent Lithuania, to escape politics. It’s not to be. As soon as he steps off the train, he’s recruited to head the young country’s counterintelligence office.A bit of historical background helps to understand Adamonis’s task.
Sileika based his character Adamonis on a real person, whom the novelist calls the Lithuanian James Bond. This brings me to my biggest issue with the book:works as a historical novel, but it lacks the narrative drive or stakes of the spy thriller it wants to be.
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