★ The book has been shortlisted for one of Russia's most prestigious literary awards in 2021 -- the long list of Big Book Award!
★ This book is both a historical novel and a life story. The language is humorous and fun. It is easy to read, but it talks about serious and difficult history!
★ This book covers three centuries of history: the Middle Ages, the 20th century and the modern age. The architectural features of each country in the book do not exist in reality, from which you can see the author's rich imagination.
★ History is a process of constantly summing up experience, and the only thing left by human society is history. The novel "The History of an Island" obviously only describes part of it, but it is like a drop of water, which can reflect and refract a lot.

This book describes the history of a fictional island from the Middle Ages to modern times. The history of this island is the history of a country, and this small piece of land becomes a platform for political events from which readers can easily learn about centuries of Western European history. It doesn't focus on Russian history, also doesn't separate Russian history from European history.

Evgene Vodolazkin：

WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD AND YASNAYA POLYANA PRIZE 2013
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER PRIZE 2013, THE BOOKER
PRIZE 2013, THE BIG BOOK AWARD 2010,
ANDREI BELY PRIZE 2009
His works have been authorized to be published in more than 30 countries!

Evgene Vodolazkin was born in Kiev in 1964. A scholarly expert in the old Russian literature, since 1990 Vodolazkin has worked in the department of the Old Russian Literature at the Pushkin House. Prof. Dmitry Likhachev’s pupil, Evgene Vodolazkin has numerous academic published titles and articles to his name and has been awarded fellowships for research and lectureship in Germany from Toepfer Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Vodolazkin’s debut novel, Solovyov and Larionov, became an immediate success, shortlisted to Andrei Bely Prize (2009) and Big Book Award (2010). Laurus is Evgene Vodolazkin’s second novel. Evgene Vodolazkin lives with his family in St Petersburg, Russia.