Above the ground

Mikhail Turbin was born in 1986 in Veliky Novgorod. Published in the magazines Volga, Banner, Floors, a collection of stories “What happiness!”. Laureate of the Banner of the magazine and prize for young writers Lyceum-2022.
Ilya Rudnev is a talented doctor of children"s resuscitation. He stubbornly, sometimes without hope for success, beats for fragile lives. This is not just a job - with the death of Rudnev, personal scores. A year ago, one day he lost his wife and son. Rudnev tries to forget in his work, emerge from guilt, and it almost turns out, but once an ambulance brings a boy to the hospital, who, like two drops of water, looks like a dead son.
“This novel is an insightful and accurate diagnosis of modern Russia, written An exciting, vividly, with great love for their characters and for us, people. ”
Maya Kucheskaya
“Before us is deeply human, tragic and full of love for a private little life, a book. It is such literature that we need the most now. ”
Grigory Servant
A brilliantly written, terrible and fascinating novel.
Marina Stepnova