Agrees to Be Friends
An artist is found dead in a Yaroslavl circus tent; investigator Nechayev untangles a years-long romance by correspondence, where the words “agrees to be friends” became both a promise and a polite refusal.
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The detective trilogy «Quiet Affairs», a confessional novel, a parable novella, an autobiographical story of childhood and its English edition.
7 books
The «Quiet Affairs» cycle
Quiet stories where, behind ordinary walls, family secrets, old grievances and one question hide: what are people willing to do to one another. Investigator Sergey Nechayev, three novels.
Love Till the Grave
The second novel — a family drama and investigation: Nechayev reconstructs the death of Larisa, untangling a knot of old grievances, love and unspoken words in a family near Moscow.
People's Rule
The third novel. In a garden community near Podolsk the power starts going out without explanation, and an action group rises against the chairwoman. A novel about how power works where there are no cameras and no reporters — only the group chat, the bylaws and the people.
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A Confession for the Dearest One
A single summer day out of town turns into a confession: happy for the first time, he tells her everything — his former life, almost twenty-four years of marriage. A tender, clear-eyed book about how hard, and how necessary, it is to let yourself be fully known. In the manner of Dina Rubina.
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A Parable of the Genuine
Fifteen-year-old Varya from the Arbat is afraid of being average — and one night she calls on her whole lineage for help. Her forgotten great-grandfather, a late-19th-century painter, appears: a warm parable about what stays real when almost everything can be faked.
The Adventures of Kesha the Russian Boy
An autobiographical novella about childhood and coming of age, set against the backdrop of a transformative era in Russia.
The Adventures of Kesha the Russian Boy
The English version of the autobiographical novella about the adventures of boy Kesha.