Everything is Repairable

Alexander Kabakov 1943—2020 — prose writer, journalist, playwright; author of the sensational «The Non-Returnee», the elegant «The Fugitive», ironic «Moscow Tales» and other works. Films have been made based on Kabakov's novels, and his books have been translated in many countries around the world. The novel «Everything is Repairable. Chronicles of Private Life» was awarded the «Big Book» prize. The life of the hero of the novel «Everything is Repairable», Mikhail Saltykov, represents the life of an entire generation against the backdrop of half a century of history. With extraordinary attention to the details of the everyday life of a bygone era, Saltykov recalls his childhood in a military town in the 1950s, the basics of speculation and jazz in the 1960s, the stylish youth and maturity that coincided with the years of perestroika; there are also love adventures, betrayals by close ones, denunciations, a lost treasure, and money that has disappeared without a trace. «This novel contains so much love for a flawed, futile person, so much respect for the clumsiness of our earthly path, that one truly begins to believe in the repairability of life». Sergey Shargunov