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About the product Timur Valitov (b. 1991) is a prose writer, twice finalist of the Lyceum award (for the collections «Fictions» and «The Last Round»), laureate of the Znamya magazine award. His stories were shortlisted for the Dmitry Gorchev Literary Prize and the Voloshinsky Competition. The works have been translated into German and Bulgarian. «The Corner Room» is a debut novel in the summer of 2018. In Russia, the World Cup is thundering, but the young hero is not up to sports — a personal tragedy pulls him out of Moscow’s measured life and returns to his hometown. Suddenly he finds himself drawn into strange and dangerous events … «Fresh, sharp, modern text, inside which is hidden another one — leisurely, classic in every sense of the word. It is impossible to tear yourself away from the book.» Marina Stepnova «This is a free and refined narration, written with a light, barely perceptible French accent: there are many Parisian scenes here, a melody from the famous film “Umbrellas of Cherbourg” sounds, and the main character reminds “outsiders” of Camus, Sartre, Celine. the new “lost” generation — children born in the early 1990s in Russia — have found their own face and voice. «Maya Kucherskaya.
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