Justification

Dmitry Bykov- prose writer, poet, publicist, radio and television journalist. His lectures of the “Direct Speech” cycle are enormous. The author of many novels and the original literary biographies of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky. Twice Laureate of the Big Book Prize.
In the novel “Execution” Bykov offers his version of the General Plan of the Stalinist repressions: those who did not die, withstood, did not specify themselves or others, forged for a special mission. The protagonist, the grandson of the repressed, in the mid-90s goes in search of the traces of his grandfather. His investigation turns into a tense fantastic detective with an unexpected, terrible denouement.
“Execution”-the first novel of “O-trilogy.”
“Execution”-my first novel, invented 25 years ago and so frightened me still In the idea that I offered this plot to all familiar writers - and all, noting its attractiveness, said that it was impossible to write. I had to write myself. The waves of hatred that this book caused could not predict. But not a single essay was awarded to such attention. It seems, in a sense, I really got into the nerve.
Dmitry Bykov