Prose 2017. Slavnikova O.A.

Olga Slavnikova - a prose writer, a literary critic, the author of the novels “Dragonfly, increased to the size of the dog”, “One in the mirror”, “Immortal”, “light head” and “long jump”. The novel “2017” brought Slavnikova widely fame and was awarded the Russian Bucher Prize in 2006.

2017. Big Ural city. The world of mountain spirits.

The main character is a talented cutter of stones, his friends are curtains are members of a closed clan, they are obsessed with prey of precious stones. His lover does not name the name, he does not know her address, although he has the keys to her apartment.

a constant challenge to fate, a constant game. Only one thing is always assigned a date, each sortie into the mountains can become the last.

And at the same time, the anniversary of the October Revolution is approaching and on the streets of the city the theatrical battles of red and whites, which turn into a real revolution.

This tall thriller is the first, perhaps, experience when a Russian writer, preoccupied with style, is also wiped out by a plot flywheel that rotates a chain of very well made scenes.