To Kill Bobrykin

To Kill Bobrykin is the Russian Booker Prize — a novel of tenderness and tragedy, a psychological detective story and a love story. The hero, Sasha Shishin, is not of this world; he is from the world of childhood. And... his love, the girl Tanya, and hatred — his rival Bobrykin — also hail from childhood. Shishin's mother hinders his victory over Bobrykin, as she sees her adult son as an eternal fool. There is only one way out: to kill Bobrykin… So was there murder in this most complex of novels, according to Galina Volchek? And who killed whom? There was murder. The murder of an entire world — the Emerald City of great hopes. The story of the murder of one love, Sasha Nikolaenko. Perhaps this is the best Russian book of the early 21st century. Not a single extra word, not a single false note from Sergey Belyakov. Prose writer and artist Sasha Nikolaenko is the author of the novels Heavenly Postman Fedya Bulkin, Ant God: Requiem, and the collection People Lived as Always.