Earth

Mikhail Elizarov is the author of the novels “Librarian” (Russian Bucher Award), “Pasternak” and “Cartoons” (short list of the National Bestseller Prize), collections of stories “Nail” (short list of the award Andrei Bely), “We We went out to smoke for 17 years ”(a prize of a reader vote of the Nose Prize)
The new novel by Mikhail Elizarov“ Earth ”is the first large -scale understanding of the“ Russian Tanatos. ”
“ As such, there is no funeral slang. There is a vulgar pick -up jargon. There, the incoming motorcyclist is mockingly called the “astronaut”, who fell from a height - “paratrooper”, “acrobat” or “Ikar”, drowned - “diver”, “ichtyander”, “Mumu” ​​who died in an accident - “KEGLI”. Perhaps, in some cemetery, a tablet-a-time sign on the grave will be called a “shovel”, a wreath-a “bush”, and a digger-a “mole”. This novel is the story of the mole.
(Mikhail Elizarov)