Aviator

Evgeny Vodolazkin - prose writer, philologist. The author of the bestseller "Lavr" and the elegant Historical fiction "Soloviev and Larion". In Russia, it is called “Russian Umberto Eco”, in America - after the release of “Lavra” in English - “Russian Marquez”. It is enough for him to be himself. The works of Vodolazkin are translated into many foreign languages.

the hero of the new novel “Aviator” is a man in a Tabula Rasa state: Having once woke up in a hospital bed, he understands that he does not know anything about himself - nothing of his name, nor where he is like that. In the hope of restoring the history of his life, he begins to record the memories that have visited him, fragmentary and chaotic: Petersburg of the early twentieth century, a country childhood in Siverskaya and Alushta, gymnasium and first love, the revolution of the 1917th, love in aviation, nightingale... But where did he come from. He definitely remembers the details of life, phrases, smells, sounds of that time, if on the calendar is 1999?..

on the front side of the binding, the drawing of Mikhail Shemyakin, created specifically for this book.