It has been said that God is the greatest novelist but with a weakness for irrelevant sub plots and useless minor characters. Maxim Butchenko’s novel The War Artist draws on the work of the almighty by combining “real” people with fictional creations, writes Steve Komarnyckyj.
The grisly cast of characters we encounter in the book includes several genuine Russian commanders. Mozgovoy or “Ghost” is, fittingly enough, just a spectre flitting through a paragraph. The Georgian Giwi is glimpsed by the light of a fire flickering in a hangar at Donbas airport. However, the book focuses in detail on the psychopathic war …read more
Source: EU Today
