LET’S DISCUSS THIS
BOOK
Ajay Kamalakaran, is the
author of book titled as
“Globetrotting for Love &
Other Stories from Sakhalin
Island”. These eleven short
stories in the book are
woven with history, fiction,
poetry and nostalgia set in
the Sakhalin islands. An
island around eleven kms off
the coast of Russia in the
North Pacific and just north
of Japan has quite an
interesting history and
treasure of natural nature
and scenic beauty. It is also
home to sea-lions, whales,
brown bears and lots of
fantastic people, artists,
readers and writers and
curious stories.THESE STORIES ARE INDEED TREASURE
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ALWAYS LOVED
THE LITERARY TREATS OF LEGENDARY
RUSSIAN WRITERS CHEKHOV, LEO
TOLSTOY, ALEXANDER PUSHKIN AND
OTHER GLORIOUS NAMES IN RUSSIAN
WRITING AND FELL IN LOVE WITH,
RUSSIA, THE STORIES OF RUSSIAN
LIVES SET IN BEAUTIFUL RUSSIAN
LANDSCAPES.
ANTON CHEKHOV HAD LIVED IN THESE
ISLANDS FOR THREE MONTHS IN THE
1890S AND WROTE “SAKHALIN ISLAND”
SOCULTURES MAGAZINE MAY-JUNE 2019 / 57The house of ChekhovThe facade of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk airport was decorated with banners with a quote and a
portrait of A. P. Chekhov/ https://sakhalinmedia.ru/newsimage source: wikipedia