New novel from the bestselling author «Laurel»,
winner of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards, finalist of the Russian Booker
Evgeny Vodolazkin is a prose writer and philologist. The author of the best-selling Laurel and the exquisite historical fiction Soloviev and Larionov. In Russia he is called «Russian Umberto Eco», in America — after the release of «Lavra» in English — «Russian Marquez». It is enough for him to be himself. Vodolazkin’s works have been translated into many foreign languages.
The hero of the new novel «Aviator» is a man in a state of tabula rasa: once waking up in a hospital bed, he realizes that he knows absolutely nothing about himself — neither his name, nor who he is, nor where he is. In the hope of restoring the history of his life, he begins to write down the memories that have visited him, fragmentary and chaotic: Petersburg at the beginning of the twentieth century, summer cottage childhood in Siverskaya and Alushta, gymnasium and first love, the revolution of 1917, falling in love with aviation, Solovki … But where did he come from? exactly remembers the details of everyday life, phrases, smells, sounds of that time, if 1999 is on the calendar? ..
© Vodolazkin E., 2016
© Shemyakin M., illustration
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