Books

The Eternal Return

A darkly twisted take on the Pygmalion myth—monstrous, cynical, and unexpectedly comic—it embraces W. B. Yeats’ conviction that ‘sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind.’

Next Year in Jerusalem

A brutal re-imagining of the Gospel story, Next Year in Jerusalem follows the footsteps of Yeshua Bar-Yosif—an illiterate, epileptic, bastard son of a Roman soldier on his ill-fated life journey through a land racked by terror.

The Man in the Brown Suit

A mnemonic journey in verse through place and time – from New York to California, interspersed with flashbacks of Russia – as related in a conversation with a demon who appears as the “Man in the Brown Suit” on the East Coast and who reinvents himself as the “Man in the Seersucker Suit” on the Pacific.

Haymarket Square

A novel in verse inspired by Alfred Doblin‘s monumental “Berlin Alexanderplatz“, re-set in post Soviet Russia which concerns the fate of Alex Bobrov: a petty criminal and former pimp who was imprisoned for ‘accidentally’ murdering one of his tricks. Having served out his entire sentence without witnessing the collapse of the USSR and the subsequent radical transformation of society in the fledgling Russian Federation, Alex desperately seeks to fit in this new world he exited out onto.