Emergency Exit

Ilya Kocherhin was born in Moscow in 1970, studied at the Institute of Asian and African Countries, graduated from the Literary Institute, worked as a forester in the Altai Nature Reserve, and now lives in the Ryazan region. Author of... the books "The Chinese Helper," "I, Your Grandson," "Assembly Point," "Ich Liebe Dich," and "Appropriation of Space." Laureate of the magazines "Znamya," "New World," "October." To take a trip one day and leave with a loved one to the most remote place, to build a house with your own hands, to take in an old horse for its last days. Outside the window, winter is replaced by summer, the COVID pandemic begins and ends, the year 2022 comes and goes, — and the horse Fenya, saved from cruelty, gradually becomes the center of a small universe and helps find that very emergency exit. "This is true lyrical prose, which at times turns into a script for an author’s film, filled with images, flashbacks, and unusual close-ups." ("New World")