Written by Aleksander Tuvim. Translated by Okla Elliott & Raul Clement 705 pages; softcover; prose The first novel in the Joshua City Trilogy, The Doors You Mark Are Your Own, is a post-apocalyptic literary epic that blends elements of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Golden Age Hollywood. It is sweeping in scope and often postmodern in form, yet eminently accessible. Its DNA is equal parts Margaret Atwood, Frank Herbert, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and William T. Vollmann--and readers of all these authors will find much to enjoy here. As The Doors You Mark Are Your Own opens, an outbreak of the flesh-rotting disease nekrosis threatens the peace among the Seven Cities. Mayor Adams, the tyrannical leader of Joshua City, scapegoats the city-state of Ulan-Ude. He declares war in hope of accomplishing his true goal: uniting the entire Baikal region under the Joshuan banner. Against this backdrop of espionage and violence, a revolutionary group called The Underground emerges, and a battle for the control of Joshua City begins.