Committee for the Protection of Bridges

They played Minecraft — the court decided — they wanted to blow up a bridge over the Yenisei. They worked as mechanics, doctors, businessmen — life forced them — to create a committee to save their own children. They were journalists — they got a — bloody story of provocations and a northern cult. This is a book of rage: it is what drives the heroes whose children are in danger. This is a book about Siberia: the events of the novel take place in Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, and Tomsk. This is a book of hope: there is a chance that the heroes will manage to resist the terrible northern fairy tale and quench the bloodthirst of the Winter Prosecutor. A memorial novel, a time capsule. A book necessary for the Russian literary landscape today. The 2010s will be remembered as a time of insane trials and man-eating sentences, the time of the Winter Prosecutor, — thanks to the Committee... Zakharov. Alexey Polyarin Bitter, honest, ruthless book. A smart and very relevant socio-psychological thriller. A novel about Siberia — modern, real, and completely unlike the land of giants from official folklore. About honor in dishonorable conditions — and about trade brotherhood: stale, unsteady, sold out and lost its meaning in the dismantled workshop, yet forcing the heroes to become the heart of a society that lives and beats. To death. Shamil Idiatullin