Red Cross. Filipenko Sasha

his reader appeared at Sasha Filipenko at once - after the success of the “former son” and the next two novels. “Haller”, even before the book published by the “Banner”, according to the Electronic Portal “Journal Hall”, became in 2016 the most popular text of all Russian thick literary magazines. So, his reader understands what to expect from the "Red Cross." He will not be deceived: there is a shocking in the novel, on the verge of credibility, the story of a young hero; and a plot compressed as a spring; and a cinematic joint of time; And a paradoxical denouement. But there is news: all this signature Sashin “fiction” completely overdo it and the documentary of the documentary, the history of the contacts of the People’s Commissariat of the USSR and the International Red Cross during the war years, is inherent in the novel.

Sasha Filipenko is a master to create a mood with associative installation. Presenting the reader the “Red Cross”, we will use his technique, we will quote Joseph Brodsky: “There are children from love. / You are now alone in the world. / Remember the song, what happened, / I hummed in the dark? / This is a cat, this is a mouse. / This is a camp, this is a tower. / This is the time of a quiet sapa / kills mom with dad. "