Ways of Communication

To save oneself is to save another. The main message of the new novel "Ways of Communication," in which two eras are closely intertwined: 1936 and 2045 - the historical utopia of the young Soviet state and the harsh dystopia of the future.
Nina in 1936 is an employee of the People's Commissariat for Transport and the wife of a high-ranking official. Nina in 2045 is an artificial intelligence that comes into contact with a special courier in the service of a totalitarian state. What do these two Ninas have in common? Both - a human and a machine - find themselves capable of going against the law and their own destiny to save another.
A relevant, subtle, and intelligent novel in the spirit of the early Tatiana Tolstaya, Vladimir Sorokin, and Viktor Pelevin.