Mitja Vachedin was born in 1982 in today’s St Petersburg. He spent the first twenty years of his life in communist, and then the following capitalist Russia, until he moved to Germany where he went on to study political science, Slavic studies and script writing. ‘Angels speak Russian’ is his debut novel in the German language. Mitja has great talent for both prose and script writing. As soon as the novel begins, one feels immediately projected into the novel’s mise…