Harshly and gloomy

Andrei Rubanov is the author of the novels “Patriot”, “Get ready for war”, “Finist is a clear falcon”. Laureate of the Awards “National Bestseller” and “Yasnaya Polyana”, the finalist of the Big Book Award. In the new collection of short prose, “hard and gloomy”, Rubanova “Ya-hero” Rubanova again, inherits the artistic and documentary “Ya-Literature” Limonov and Dovlatov, is the same as in the novels “Plant, and grow”, “Great Dream ”,“ iodine ”and the collections of“ shameful exploits ”and“ also the homeland ”: a Soviet boy, a soldier, a businessman, who has served a criminal, a movie scan, husband and father. “Drunk, happy, bad, we stood on the balcony, looked out the yellow windows, inhaled the sour air of the big city and laughed. We knew everything about everything. Thirty -five were equal to us. We were rich and poor, devoted and sold, beaten and cursed, married and divorced, drunk and advised, arrested and released. The oligarchs trusted us billions, and their own wives were afraid to entrust the children. We had no idea about who we were. Bastards - or heroes? Adventurers - or ascetics? And now one of us managed to put our reflection on paper, our rage and love. I found words. "