John Kolchak is a Russian-born American novelist, screenwriter and poet. He is the author of “Haymarket Square” – a novel-in-verse about post-Soviet Russia which made New York Times columnist and culture critic Cintra Wilson christen him as “one of a dying breed … a thought criminal after your own heart.” “Haymarket Square” was listed as one of The Guardian’s best reader recommended self-published books.
“Next Year in Jerusalem” is a fictional account of the gospel story and is a tale about the rise of Christianity as it parallels the ascent of the brutal Islamist movements of today.
He is also the author of “The Man in the Brown Suit” – a series of interconnected poems about the nature of memory and the immigrant experience which forms a prelude to his current novel in progress, “The Eternal Return”. He lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews of NextYear in Jerusalem:
“Set somewhere in the arid wastelands between Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ and Gore Vidal’s Julian, Kolchak weaves a Hobbesian Palestine where the life of a man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutal, and short, especially in terms of faith and law. A lurid, intense work… a gospel in its own right, even as grim as it is and as it should be.”
-Burke Gerstenschlager, BLEAK THEOLOGY
“Kolchak revels in subversion and profanity, turning many of the most famous New Testament stories on their heads and creating an immensely sympathetic character in Yeshua along the way. This is a challenging book… but a very rewarding one as well.”
-HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY
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