The Department

Igor, in principle, did not expect good from this work: an abandoned boiler room in the industrial zone, colleagues with wolf tickets, well, what were the goals and objectives.
We need to get drunk, Igor thinks, rising to your neighbors. One-two-three-four, the main thing is not to confuse the floor. Do you hear the noise upstairs? These are not the children shaved, these are shots.
Alexey Salnikov - Russian poet and prose writer. Published in the Almanac "Babylon", the magazines "Air", "Ural", "Ural new" and others. His novel "Petrova in the flu and around him" entered the short lists of prizes "Big Book" and "Nose" and became one of the most discussed books in 2017.

"Department" is a new novel by the laureate of the “Nos" and "Big Book", the finalist of the National Best prize, the author of the novel "Petrova in the flu and around it" Alexei Salnikov.

"Gloomy, hard and very witty - as if" people in the black "eyes of Balabanov".
Egor Mikhailov, Poster Daily

"A book that violates the rest of the reader, the rules of the genre and the law of earthly attraction."
Konstantin Milchin, editor -in -chief of the site "Gorky"
"The world of Salnikov is full of miracles and at the same time understanding. It has both humor and secret. It is arranged beautifully, with love and without strangle. If this is not distinguished by the work of a great writer, then what? "
Alexander Snegirev, writer, laureate of the Russian Bucher Prize

"One reader will see in the novel a skillfully actualized parable on the topic" We only performed an order ", the other - the existential drama of the voluntary murder of the personality, the third - the desperately calm realism of the expansion of the accumulated capital, the fourth - anti -utopia that reinsuring classical American and Soviet fiction , the fifth is a long -term large Russian romance, eagerly determining the price of the sold soul and tears of a tortured child. And each reader will be right. Salnikov knows how to give readers advanced rights and powers. Including the right to ensure that the reader finds himself with horror in the department and the department in himself. A terrible, necessary and timely book. "
Shamil Idiatullin, writer