Minus 273 degrees Celsius

"Suspect. Fraught with you. Prove that the suspicions are groundless. Such a note, written on a quarter of the sheet, receives the hero of the novel. And what do these words mean, what they promise, what is he forced to? He is quite law -abiding, does not encroach on the foundations. True, he lives in a strange city, where everything is subordinated to the immutable rules of the secret and formidable service of sterility. A story is covered with a light veil of fantasy, in the center of which the hero’s personal drama. The receipt of an absurd notes at first looks like an unpleasant misunderstanding, but divides his life into "before" and "after". The course of the novel is the farther, the more rapidly - the author undoubtedly owns the techniques of a detective narrative. The novel is written with stylistic grace and metaphorical sophistication.

New Roman Anatoly Kurchatkina "minus 273 degrees Celsius". Three of his novels in the short-list of the Russian Bouquer prize. The novel "Sun Sidowed" - winner of the competition "Russian plot" - in the short list of the "Russian Boker":
What: exciting anti -utopia, a political pamphlet with a detective plot.
About what: the hero of the novel Anatoly Kurchatkina, called K (Hello, Kafka!), Outwardly a prosperous teacher of philosophy, lives in a world reminiscent of ours, but there is a service of sterility. And everything would be okay: observe the law, do not indulge in cheesecakes, but love intervenes - and the dizzying collapse of events begins ...
On the same shelf: "1984" Orwell, "We" Zamyatin, DVD with the movie "V - means Wendetta".
For whom: both readers of anti -utopia and connoisseurs of realistic prose in the genre of psychological drama