Red Heaven is a 2021 novel by the Australian author Nicolas Rothwell.
[2] The unnamed boy at the centre of this novel is raised by two aunts in Europe: Serghiana, who is the daughter of a Soviet general in the communist regime who goes on to work as a film producer in California; Madame Ady, who is a fashionable Viennese woman married to a famous conductor.
How these two conflicting aunts try to influence the boy will have a profound effect on him for the rest of his life.
In Australian Book Review reviewer Paul Giles noted: "Abjuring the idea of the novel as a mere social construction, Red Heaven attempts instead to resuscitate ‘ghosts’ buried deep within the narrator’s psyche."
The reviewer concluded that the novel "is a work of genuine intellectual exploration, original and provocative on its own hermetic terms.