Troy against all. Stesin A.

What is this book about? About American punk and African oil industry workers. About love and Soviet childhood. What can be the connection between all this? Ask Vadik Goldner, and he will answer you with a mixture of Russian with English and Portuguese. The hero of the new novel by Alexander Stesin lived several lives: a schoolboy, an emigrant, a young punk barrier, a successful lawyer in Angola.

“Troy against all” is a book about how the experience of the past suddenly breaks into our present. Talking about growing a hero on three continents, the author in his own way updates the classic genre of “Roman Education”. The soundtrack here is the sensual Portuguese FADA, then the furious hardcore, which is equally loved in the slums of the Angolan capital and in the provincial American city with the Homeric name.

Alexander Zesin - poet, prose writer, traveler and doctor, author of books “By tea” (2017), “New York Bypass” (2019), “African book” (2020), “Birds of Life” (2021) and others, laureate of “Russian Prize” (2014) and the Literary Prize “Nose” (2019).