A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great PlainsIn his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region’s fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals Siberia’s role in history—its science, economics, and politics—with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we’ll never think about it in the same way again.With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia’s most famous exiles, from the well-known—Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)—to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago.Travels in Siberia is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances, and, above all, a unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the “amazingness” of Russia—a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. Travels in Siberia will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century’s indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.

畅销书《大平原》作者的令人眼花缭乱的俄罗斯游记在他令人吃惊的新作品中，伊恩-弗雷泽，我们最伟大和最有趣的讲故事的人之一，将他敏锐、慷慨的目光投向西伯利亚，这个亚洲俄罗斯的传奇地带，其严峻的声誉只是该地区迷人、持久吸引力的数百种解释之一。在《西伯利亚游记》中，弗雷泽以极大的激情和热情揭示了西伯利亚在历史上的作用--它的科学、经济和政治，确保我们再也不会以同样的方式思考它。 弗雷泽以巨大的同情心和史诗般的气势，讲述了西伯利亚最有名的流亡者的故事，从众所周知的陀思妥耶夫斯基、列宁（两次）、斯大林（多次），到不太出名的人（如娜塔莉-罗普金，因抄袭女皇的衣服而被放逐），以及那些在苏维埃政权下的西伯利亚集中营中经历了难以想象的痛苦的人，亚历山大-索尔仁尼琴在《古拉格群岛》中永远地成为了不朽。 西伯利亚游记》也是一部关于苏联解体后的俄罗斯的独特编年史，是俄罗斯朋友和熟人之间冒险的个人记录，最重要的是，它是一部独特的、迷人的、完全是弗雷泽式的关于他所称的俄罗斯的 "神奇 "的作品--这个国家，尽管有着悲惨的历史，但不知为何仍然设法变得有趣。西伯利亚游记》无疑将成为21世纪对旅游写作流派不可或缺的贡献之一。