The best people of the city. Kozhevina K.

Katerina Kozhevina - prose writer, sociologist, curator of educational projects on culture and memory in the regions of Russia. Laureate of the “Lyceum” Prize 2021 for the novel “The Best People of the City”.

Kryukov, a small city on Sakhalin, lives according to their own laws - they go to sea, poachers, believe in the spirits of forest and water, often meet whales and bears. Suddenly the usual order collapses: a large oil company decides to build a new plant in Kryukov. Muscovite Lena goes on an unusual journey to the ends of the world. To save her career, she will have to gain the trust of local residents and become a guide between the worlds: the province and the capital.

“The heroine of the novel knows where the Globus has gone from the geography cabinet. Now we know: here he is. “The best people of the city” are the ideal globe of Russia from Moscow to the very outskirts, convex, embossed, terribly similar and drawn in the smallest details. In rest, Katerina Kozhevina, almost strictly and with a piercing understanding, tells the story of a single girl in difficulty, exciting, frighteningly accurate and wildly ridiculous, but in fact gives a cut of the history of a huge country and very different people: Muscovites and Far East, office plankton and the Far East and Far East. “Correct men”, heads of administrations and driveways, fashionable DJs and shamans, superstitious personnel and dreamy gopnits. This is really the best people, and they will not be better - unless, of course, they learn love and patience. Katerina’s novel Kozhevina confirms that this is possible - and what is it necessary. ”

Shamil Idiatullin