Delta Lena is Günther Geiger's second novel set in Russia, following Ulica Marata. With this touching account of a hellish journey, Geiger presents us with a book about Siberian rivers, "these pulsating streams of love." Circling over the blue, silver-combed Pacific, we land on Sakhalin Island. Gerwin dreams of the Lena Delta, knowing that he might cross the point of no return. The goal of the journey: marital happiness. Gerwin shares with us the sight of endless birch forests, the poverty of Russian pensioners, and takes us into artists' apartments, while continually reflecting on the infinite Siberia and the southern flank of the Caucasus, particularly the hotspot of Chechnya, alongside poetic nature descriptions and documentation of excessive vodka feasts. He returns from this journey with the wild snail Lena as his wife and her namesake T.