Earth. Elizarov M.Yu.

Mikhail Elizarov is the author of the novels “Librarian” (Russian Bucher Award), “Pasternak” and “Cartoons” (short-list of the National Bestseller Prize), collections of stories “Nail” (short-list of the prize Andrei Bely) , “We went out to smoke for 17 years” (a prize of a reader vote of the Nose award). The new novel by Mikhail Elizarov “Earth” is the first large -scale understanding of the “Russian Tanatos”. “As such, there is no funeral slang. There is a vulgar pick -up jargon. There, the incoming motorcyclist is mildly called the “astronaut”, which fell from a height - “paratrooper”, “acrobat” or “Ikar”, drowned - “Diver”, “Ichthyander”, “Mumu”, who died in an accident - “Kugli”. Perhaps in a cemetery a slave-in-the-time plate on the grave will be called a “shovel”, a wreath-a “bush”, and the digger is “a mole”. This novel is the story of the mole ”(Mikhail Elizarov).